Old People Don’t Hold Hands - Chapter 133



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Episode 133, The Frost Queen’s Crown (5)

Let’s take one step, two steps closer to the guy.

“Ah, mister, why are you coming here again? Hey, sis… …! Sis! Hey, where are you… …!”

The child kept shouting while looking into the air, seeming quite embarrassed because of me.

I didn’t speak to the guy, I just sat next to him.

“… … Phew.”

Well, after standing for a while and then sitting down, I feel more comfortable.

“Sir… … , why are you like this… … ?”

As I stood close to him, the guy muttered to me with a very frightened look on his face.

“But your sister won’t save you. My friend will hold on tight.”

Let’s make it clear that no one can save the guy.

“… … Huh, do you think I wouldn’t know that?”

The guy also revealed his true colors in an instant.

“Oh?”

The innocent face that had been as sharp as a knife just a moment ago was nowhere to be found.

The guy was glaring at me with a face full of nothing but malice.

Are you going to reveal your true colors since Biella is not here?

Hmm, well then me too.

Let’s get straight to the point.

“What is your identity?”

“… … .”

When I asked this, the little boy glared at me for a long time.

He smiled strangely.

“I am human.”

“No, you are not human.”

“… … Anyone can see that he’s human, so why do you think that way?”

There was no need to think long about the answer.

“People of that age don’t usually introduce themselves like that.”

At least tell me your name or something.

And above all… … .

Instead of keeping my mouth shut, I reached out.

With a quickly outstretched hand, he grabbed the guy by the neck.

I quietly focused on the sensation of my hand touching it.

The neck of the guy who felt that way.

“… … It’s cold?”

He was so cold that he couldn’t even be considered human.

“If you’re not human, then what are you?”

… … A monster? Or an illusion that only appears here?

Let’s ask the guy who is obviously the enemy, holding him by the neck, even though we don’t know what he is.

“… … Key, kick.”

The guy suddenly burst into laughter.

“You’re quite smart, aren’t you, human?”

“… … That’s enough about being smart, but what is your identity?”

“Ki, Kick. Do you really think it’ll be okay if I do this? Young humans are supposed to be protected by humans, right?”

“… … Then what are you doing, kid? You’re not human.”

As I gripped his neck even tighter with those words, the guy looked away and smiled even as he was breathing heavily.

Wherever the guy looked… … .

“Oh, my! There, there’s a kid over there… … !”

There were people looking at me with a dangerous look on their faces as I grabbed the guy by the neck.

“Hey, call someone outside! Hey, hurry up!”

Among them, there were several who ran outside to call soldiers.

“Look at this, human. Height, kick, and attention are all at a disadvantage to you, you punk.”

… … Chew.

This made things complicated, but I couldn’t let it go right away.

If you miss this opportunity, you will never be able to contact him again.

So I held onto the bastard’s neck and asked with more force.

“So, tell me what your identity is.”

“It wasn’t key, kick, smart, it was just, stupid, bang… …!”

“I could just snap your neck before people come, and you still wouldn’t tell me?”

I asked with such force that my fingertips trembled.

Instead of answering, the guy just looked around.

But the people he was looking at couldn’t bring themselves to come closer.

I was just stamping my feet.

In addition, for some reason, the people who ran outside did not return right away.

Things didn’t go as planned.

“… … Tsk.”

The guy had no choice but to confess.

“say.”

“… … I am a fragment of illusion that remains in an illusion.”

“A piece of welcome?”

“John, Jaeji, who manages to keep you from easily getting out of the circle.”

“… … So it’s your fault that Biella doesn’t even remember her name?”

“Key, kick, human, I didn’t, do, anything.”

“… … ?”

As if telling him not to say anything useless, he put more strength into his hand.

Even though he kept yapping, he never changed his words.

“I just became the kind of person that guy wanted to be.”

“… … What does that mean?”

“That guy, he became the person I desperately wanted him to be, to the point where I didn’t want to wake up from my hallucinations.”

“… … So you’re saying that you’re the human form that Biella wanted?”

“He wants people who need his help, you know. People like family, people he can save.”

… …family.

As soon as I heard the guy’s words, two people came to mind at the same time.

The first thing that came to mind was… … .

When we first see Biella, it’s her first family that she had to fight for for a long time to protect.

I didn’t know his name, but I knew what Biella called him.

mister.

At that time, Biella had to work tirelessly to protect the man called ‘Mr.’

… … In the end, there was nothing I could do but watch the end of my family, already reduced to rags.

And the second person who came to mind was.

… … it was Homer.

The man whom Biella acknowledged as her family next, but who she also failed to protect.

“Is that why?”

The person Biella wants is a young girl who is so fragile that she can be easily protected.

“Key, kick, frost, the king’s hallucinations are not as harsh as his infamy makes them out to be. Well, if you want, you can live out your life here forever in comfort with the illusionary being.”

“… … I have no intention of living in a place like this forever.”

“Ki, Kik, is that woman thinking the same thing?”

“Maybe so.”

From what I saw of Biella’s actions, it seemed like she cared quite a bit for him.

After all, a hallucination is a hallucination.

“If I get rid of you and force you to wake up, won’t that solve the problem?”

As I said this, I grabbed the guy’s neck even tighter.

“Ki, kihihi, hihi, … … kick!”

The guy burst into laughter as if he found it funny.

“Keep on, keep on, kick, kick! Yeah, you think you can kill me, huh?”

“I don’t think there’s any reason not to kill him.”

Even if my power was blocked, I could easily break something like this with just a little bit of strength.

And it seemed like the bastard didn’t have any special powers.

“Die now.”

When I finished saying these words, I was about to completely twist the bastard’s neck.

“K, K! If I die, that woman will die too. T, but still? But still?”

“……what?”

“That’s right, that’s right.”

“… … Tell me more.”

“Welcome, the body is more precious than anything else, for a true human being loses the will to live the moment the body of welcome dies.”

“… … Are you going to commit suicide? If you stop that, that’ll be the end of it―”

“Key, kick, is that all? You’ll lose your body to hallucinations and become a phantom. Just like me, you know.”

“……what?”

“I don’t know if I woke up late, but the hallucinations have been going on for quite some time.”

… … What does that mean?

“It must have been more than ten days. It’s been a week since this woman woke up.”

“… … .”

“Key, kick, all this time I have been precious to that woman. If you kill me, you will lose that woman.”

“… … .”

“So, you still plan on killing me?”

It’s already been ten days since the hallucinations began.

If you kill that guy, Biella might become a welcoming entity.

Since these were all words that I couldn’t easily ignore, I just held onto the guy’s neck without saying a word.

A commotion was heard from behind.

The ones making the noise were two or three soldiers who had suddenly rushed into the shelter.

They pointed their guns at me and shouted.

“Please release the child immediately!”

… … When the soldier arrived, albeit late, the guy looked at me with a completely triumphant expression.

“Uh, what are you going to do? Ki, kiihihi.”

It wasn’t easy to make a decision based on what the guy said.

Of course I had to kill him.

But if the guy’s words don’t catch on… … .

That would be a lie.

“There’s one thing I’d like to ask.”

“Key, kick, what, what is it?”

“You said you were precious to that woman. Are you sure about that?”

“Ki, Kick! Of course. Up until now, there hasn’t been a single person I haven’t been able to beat… … .”

“no.”

“… … ?”

“That is not the answer.”

“What, what?”

I was just talking to you and it occurred to me that I had missed something.

“If I really thought of you as family, I wouldn’t have tried to fool you in the first place.”

“Oh, if you kill me anyway, you’ll lose that girl, right!”

“Shit.”

Biella doesn’t treat her family that badly.

So, when you ask what the relationship is, you can’t not answer.

“You are fake.”

Biella’s ‘real family’, not a fake family like you.

That’s us.

With those words I immediately twisted the guy’s neck and snapped it.

“Ugh, ugh… … !”

I easily snapped his neck and the guy froze and fell over.

“… … Gyaaah, gyaaahhh!”

People who witnessed this began to scream loudly and back away.

“What, what is this… …!”

The soldiers who were watching us were also confused.

I took advantage of that gap.

“Inogen!”

“Ah, I see. Human! Is it time to leave now?”

Inogen quickly escaped from the building, holding Biella with one arm and me with the other.

We ran away in an instant, and even the soldiers holding guns had no time to stop us.

“… … Gosh, it’s a monster! A, a monster has attacked the shelter!”

… … Of course, breaking the neck with one hand.

But since they disappeared so quickly that it was difficult to follow them with our eyes, it seemed like they suspected us of being monsters.

The soldiers who had come to their senses also tried to attack us, albeit late.

Since we had already gotten as far away as we could, there was nothing to worry about.

“Human, I took care of this woman as you said… … . What are we going to do now?”

At Inogen’s words, I looked at Biella, who was held in the other arm.

Biella, who was hanging there, was just lying there, unconscious.

According to Inogen, he suddenly fainted after killing that guy earlier… … .

I was a little worried that maybe, just like the guy said, Biella had lost her will to live.

I decided to put useless thoughts aside.

There’s no way that could have been more precious to Biella than to us.

“I plan to look for other people for now.”

If what that guy said was true, then there must be illusions that keep other people in a state of hallucination.

And the longer I spent with those guys, the harder it would be to break free from the hallucinations.

“First, I need to find other people quickly.”

“… … So how do you plan on finding it, human?”

I looked up at Inogen’s face, which was holding me with a calm expression.

“What, what? Why?”

Inogen was also conscious of my gaze and looked flustered.

… … But, you know.

Even though we have no clue as to where exactly they are, isn’t there a dog nose here that’s really good at finding people?

Well then, I guess I have no choice but to try this method.