Takeda Yūsuke and Takeda Kazue, who crawled up from the collapsing ruins, their figures already completely twisted—these two expressions were hideously terrifying, like two fierce ghosts.
"Hey, hey, hey, isn't this being a little too haunting? Even at a time like this, the two of you still can't just die already?"
Takumi, who had not expected to still run into these two guys at the final moment, somewhat could not hold it together, and pulled Kaguya so the two of them retreated backward together, widening the distance between them and these two things.
Only, this time, the situation seemed a little different.
[I… I… why am I here… I… I have to leave…]
[To leave… why… that brat can be freed… I also… I also want to…]
Whether it was Takeda Yūsuke or Takeda Kazue, this pair of 'parents' did not act completely according to the action rules of the Horror Story as before, but instead howled hoarsely, speaking broken, intermittent words, looking like… like they had somewhat recovered their minds, recovered their clarity.
Could it be that these two guys… Wait, what Kyosei had said, this pair of parents at the beginning had maintained their selves just like him, only later he simply could no longer feel them. Could it be that, because the core of the Horror Story collapsed, the side of these two as a Horror Story was also beginning to disappear, and therefore the personalities that had originally already disappeared were to a certain extent restored, starting to slowly turn back into people?
[I want… to get out…]
[I want… to kill her…]
Their gazes, filled with twisted anger, in the next moment looked upward, looked at that point of light of 309 flickering high in the sky.
Even if they had only recovered incomplete memories and selves, the two whose twisted hatred toward their own daughter was still incomparably distinct, at this moment their first reaction was to seize the little girl who had escaped from the Shirakawa Apartments and pull her back into this hell once again.
[Crack——crack——]
The rubble that had originally been continuously falling at this moment actually began to slowly rise.
Under the will of these two figures closest to the core Horror Story, it forcibly once again drew near to 309's position, even if this would cause the collapse speed of this stretch of rubble to further accelerate.
"I had originally thought that in the end I would just uselessly die together with this stretch of rubble, didn't expect that it seems we can still have another round. How about it, Shinomiya-san, are you interested in things like fighting and brawling? I mean the kind of fighting where we give two bastard things who are worse than beasts a good beating."
"As for me personally, I actually do not like violence, and prefer to achieve my goals through words. However, if it is this kind of thing that is not even as good as those guys who live on subsidies at the bottom of society, that is even more disgusting than non-combustible polluted garbage, I think fists really can be more useful at a time like this."
Kaguya lightly nodded, moved her somewhat sore body, and then stepped forward, walking toward those two figures.
[Step—]
She had no intention of concealing her footsteps in the slightest.
Takumi and Kaguya simultaneously stepped forward, walking out to meet Takeda Yūsuke and Takeda Kazue.
[You… don't block me… do you… want to die here?]
The man was the first to realize their intention; his voice rasped as he spoke, wanting to stop Takumi and Kaguya's actions.
But the next moment, the answer he received was Takumi's fist driving straight into his face.
"I'm just doing it for fun, understand?"
Hitting the man so that three teeth flew out of his mouth and his nose twisted to one side spraying blood, Takumi calmly replied like that, and then drove another punch viciously forward.
Takeda Yūsuke and Takeda Kazue
To Takumi, the ones who tormented that poor girl through her short life—truly things worse than beasts, to the point that even comparing them to beasts was an insult to beasts. Now they had gradually lost the identity of being products of the Horror Story and had begun to slowly recover a part of their human side.
Of course, this did not mean they could live, nor did it mean they could leave this place and start over as humans.
The power of the Horror Story had thoroughly transformed them; even if they regained their consciousness, with the power of the Horror Story gradually fading, these two people were destined to collapse and disappear together with this stretch of ruins, and it was impossible for them to survive.
And it was precisely because they realized this fact that they could not forgive their daughter.
Why could you obtain rest?
Why could you escape from here and gain peace, while we have to die here?
[I want… to kill her…]
The woman, roaring in fury, her eyes bulging, stared at the sky, desperately wanting to approach the gate of 309, wanting to drag out the girl who had entered through the door.
[Thud!]
And then she was kicked by Kaguya in the chest; her whole figure twisted at once and she fell to the ground wailing.
[No… let me… let me leave!]
On the other side, the man roared as he charged up, wanting to throw a punch to push Takumi back, but Takumi grabbed his arm and executed a throw, slamming him to the ground on the spot, and then kicked him between the legs, making this man reeking of alcohol roll his eyes back and release a sharp scream.
This was not any kind of fight.
This was actually already equivalent to an act of abuse.
Having lost the power of the Horror Story and being unable to pour boiling water into Takumi and Kaguya's mouths to pry them open, Takeda Yūsuke and Takeda Kazue at this moment, aside from being able to take a beating, basically no longer had any extraordinary power and were merely two lumps of human-shaped sandbags.
[Bang!]
A vicious punch knocked the man to the ground.
Takumi then forcefully drove the scalpel downward, and with one stroke cut the man's head into two halves.
Although in the next moment the power of the Horror Story healed the injury, the pain that could not be nullified made the man let out a miserable howl, and then Takumi reached out his fingers and directly hooked into his eyeballs, crushing both of his eyes on the spot.
[Crack!]
Within a sound of bones shattering was the third time Kaguya twisted the woman's limbs apart.
Amid the miserable howls, the woman fell to the ground struggling weakly; she wanted to escape, but before she could get up, Kaguya's next attack would follow, sinking her into unending repeated torment of bones breaking and healing.
Maeda Miwa, who had originally been sitting in the ruins crying, was already dumbfounded; she had originally despaired because she thought she was doomed and did not care much about her surroundings. As a result, Takumi and Kaguya came down and pinned two people, beating them madly, sending blood and foam flying everywhere. Their almost performance-art-like actions made Maeda Miwa unable to figure out what exactly was happening at this moment.
"The ruins have already stopped rising; looks like these two guys' limit is right here."
After venting with that fierce round of beating, Takumi lifted his head and saw that this continuously collapsing stretch of ruins had finally stopped at a distance of about one hundred meters from 309, and could not help letting out a light sigh, revealing a somewhat helpless expression.
In fact, he had also wondered whether these ruins could hold out until reaching 309, but judging from the situation now, even if he and Kaguya did nothing, these two people would still be unable to make the ruins rise near 309; even approaching the curtain under 309 was impossible.
[Why… why are you stopping us?]
Takeda Yūsuke, whose body had already begun showing cracks large and small, lifted his head to look at Takumi as he asked.
This man had already begun approaching his limit; his humanity at this moment had recovered to its peak, but the remaining power of the Horror Story had basically all dissipated, and therefore his body had begun entering the stage of collapse just like this stretch of ruins.
[You two heartless bastards, why are you harming the two of us?]
The woman was howling and shouting even louder, crying and wailing as if she had suffered great injustice.
Of course, her body was also showing various cracks, and it would not take very long before death completely took her away.
"Harming you? What are you talking about? I'm just dealing with garbage. People like you are the most disgusting, the garbage that should not exist in this world. Anyway, I have no way to leave alive; keeping scourges like you here is pretty good. I just won't let you go out to harm people."
Takumi let out a sneer; as he spoke, he lifted his leg and kicked the man in the body, kicking him over onto the ground. Then he swung his arm back and slapped the woman, knocking her down on her knees, and followed with another kick to her face, sending her rolling on the ground.
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