The Devil's Castle - Epilogue
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Season: Spring
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(Later…)
(Rei, who had won the upper hand, parted with Hinata and Anzu, and was returning home.)
Rei: Hmhm~ Hm~♪
A triumphal return! For the first time in a while, I feel quite cheerful♪
Ritsu: Kill me… Just kill me… I can’t live with this shame anymore.
Rei: Kukuku. Don’t be so silly, there is no way I could kill my adorable little brother.
We are lucky to have these lives, so until it all ends… let us be always close and friendly in life.♪
Ritsu: Ngh. If you won’t kill me I’ll kill you~ I’ll drive a stake through your heart~…
O God, if you are looking upon us right now, please turn this demon into ashes immediately.
Rei: Who are you calling a demon? Even if God existed, such a wish would not be granted.
Our merciful Father who art in heaven would do nothing to tear apart two loving brothers.♪
Ritsu: Objection~… We don’t love each other~ Being carried princess style by Anija is just a punishment game… It’s humiliation play… a public execution…
Rei: Is that so? Even though Isara-kun is always carrying you this way?
Ritsu: Ma~kun is okay. Ma~kun serves me of his own will, and I accept that out of love.
What you’re doing right now is without my consent, so there’s no love.
Rei: Don’t grumble. Come, look around…
See, all these students returning from club activities are looking at us. Let us show them how close we are.♪
Ritsu: Don’t get ahead of yourself… Just go die, seriously…
I’ll let you disgrace me today because I lost our game, but someday I will make you taste the same level of despair, or worse…
Rei: You keep saying such disturbing things. Really, look up. The sunset is beautiful right now.♪
It is as red as blood. It makes me hungry, let’s hurry home and make something to eat.♪
Ritsu: Nghh… I’m tired already, you make it, Anija…
Rei: Oh my, how rare. You always say, “I like cooking, so I’ll do it~” and get upset if I take even one step into the kitchen.
Ritsu: ……
Rei: Ritsu? Please answer me.
You promised that, just for today, you would allow me to carry you and chat with me as we go home, right? As a reward for me winning the game.
Fufu. It’s on quite a different scale, but it saddens me to have a promise revoked.
Ritsu: Mn… I’m really honestly tired from all the useless excitement today…
And lately, Knights have been getting more active and busy during the daytime, so I’m seriously exhausted to the core.
I’m gonna sleep for a bit. Wake me up when we get home, Anija.
Rei: If you say “Oniichan♪” instead, I shall listen to anything you say.
Ritsu: As long as you keep talking in such a weird way… As long as you keep pretending to be someone else, I’m gonna treat you like a stranger.
Rei: Do you not like this manner of speech? It is easier on me to speak this way, you know?
Ritsu: It’s fine… it’s just that not long ago, you were trying so hard to sound like some delinquent, and then suddenly went off the rails sounding like some star student who just hit puberty. It’s lame.
But if you keep acting so much… Even I, even your family, everyone in the world will forget your true self.
Rei: My true self? No one finds that until the very moment they die, in a moment of “Ah, so that’s it”…
“I” am still this young, why do I gotta choose so soon?
You’re sayin’ I gotta act like always, no matter what?
That’s boring as crap… That’s not growin’ up, it’s not even livin’.
If that was the case, we’d all still be screamin’ like babies forever.
Babies just keep babbling over and over, living and dying with no complaint.
That was how it was supposed to be. But even though God destroyed the Tower of Babel and sent language into chaos, everyone single one of us keeps talking, never tiring of our words.
That is what it means to be human… And “I” am human, so I will speak in the manner I choose, thank you very much.♪
Ritsu: And I’m saying if you don’t at least have a consistent character, everyone’s just gonna get confused.
You’ll be misunderstood again… Nobody is that smart, they’re just a bunch of idiots.
They’ll just completely rely on you, start looking up to you, lifting you up like God or an angel…
And yet, they did a 180 as soon as people started talking bad about you, see. They treated you like a demon.
Do you have any obligation to keep wearing yourself out for crap like that?
For guys who just decided themselves whether you were an angel or a demon, interpreted it however they liked, used you and trashed you?
And you think working hard, serving them, loving them was all for some good purpose…?
To me, you’ll always be that kind Oniichan.
You could’ve left me alone, but you were desperate to reach out and take my hand. You didn’t abandon me, you loved me as my Oniichan.
And yet, you broke the one promise I didn’t ever want to be broken, whether it was the world or fate or whatever…
It just doesn’t sit well with me. It really pisses me off.
Rei: Kukuku. You are still a child, still in your growing stages…
But even if you rush to get older like me, there is not much to gain besides things getting a little easier.
You should enjoy your youth, this springtime of your life – Ritsu, my cute little brother.
Then one day, please tell me all you’ve experienced, every precious, shining thing. Then, at the moment I die, the very instant either an angel or a demon comes for me…
Only then shall I show you “the real Rei Sakuma”. This is a promise. Though, I do not know if it will be what you expect.
But for now… please, allow me to be as I am.
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< bright complex Chapter 8
Season: Spring
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(Later…)
(Rei, who had won the upper hand, parted with Hinata and Anzu, and was returning home.)
Rei: Hmhm~ Hm~♪
A triumphal return! For the first time in a while, I feel quite cheerful♪
Ritsu: Kill me… Just kill me… I can’t live with this shame anymore.
Rei: Kukuku. Don’t be so silly, there is no way I could kill my adorable little brother.
We are lucky to have these lives, so until it all ends… let us be always close and friendly in life.♪
Ritsu: Ngh. If you won’t kill me I’ll kill you~ I’ll drive a stake through your heart~…
O God, if you are looking upon us right now, please turn this demon into ashes immediately.
Rei: Who are you calling a demon? Even if God existed, such a wish would not be granted.
Our merciful Father who art in heaven would do nothing to tear apart two loving brothers.♪
Ritsu: Objection~… We don’t love each other~ Being carried princess style by Anija is just a punishment game… It’s humiliation play… a public execution…
Rei: Is that so? Even though Isara-kun is always carrying you this way?
Ritsu: Ma~kun is okay. Ma~kun serves me of his own will, and I accept that out of love.
What you’re doing right now is without my consent, so there’s no love.
Rei: Don’t grumble. Come, look around…
See, all these students returning from club activities are looking at us. Let us show them how close we are.♪
Ritsu: Don’t get ahead of yourself… Just go die, seriously…
I’ll let you disgrace me today because I lost our game, but someday I will make you taste the same level of despair, or worse…
Rei: You keep saying such disturbing things. Really, look up. The sunset is beautiful right now.♪
It is as red as blood. It makes me hungry, let’s hurry home and make something to eat.♪
Ritsu: Nghh… I’m tired already, you make it, Anija…
Rei: Oh my, how rare. You always say, “I like cooking, so I’ll do it~” and get upset if I take even one step into the kitchen.
Ritsu: ……
Rei: Ritsu? Please answer me.
You promised that, just for today, you would allow me to carry you and chat with me as we go home, right? As a reward for me winning the game.
Fufu. It’s on quite a different scale, but it saddens me to have a promise revoked.
Ritsu: Mn… I’m really honestly tired from all the useless excitement today…
And lately, Knights have been getting more active and busy during the daytime, so I’m seriously exhausted to the core.
I’m gonna sleep for a bit. Wake me up when we get home, Anija.
Rei: If you say “Oniichan♪” instead, I shall listen to anything you say.
Ritsu: As long as you keep talking in such a weird way… As long as you keep pretending to be someone else, I’m gonna treat you like a stranger.
Rei: Do you not like this manner of speech? It is easier on me to speak this way, you know?
Ritsu: It’s fine… it’s just that not long ago, you were trying so hard to sound like some delinquent, and then suddenly went off the rails sounding like some star student who just hit puberty. It’s lame.
But if you keep acting so much… Even I, even your family, everyone in the world will forget your true self.
Rei: My true self? No one finds that until the very moment they die, in a moment of “Ah, so that’s it”…
“I” am still this young, why do I gotta choose so soon?
You’re sayin’ I gotta act like always, no matter what?
That’s boring as crap… That’s not growin’ up, it’s not even livin’.
If that was the case, we’d all still be screamin’ like babies forever.
Babies just keep babbling over and over, living and dying with no complaint.
That was how it was supposed to be. But even though God destroyed the Tower of Babel and sent language into chaos, everyone single one of us keeps talking, never tiring of our words.
That is what it means to be human… And “I” am human, so I will speak in the manner I choose, thank you very much.♪
Ritsu: And I’m saying if you don’t at least have a consistent character, everyone’s just gonna get confused.
You’ll be misunderstood again… Nobody is that smart, they’re just a bunch of idiots.
They’ll just completely rely on you, start looking up to you, lifting you up like God or an angel…
And yet, they did a 180 as soon as people started talking bad about you, see. They treated you like a demon.
Do you have any obligation to keep wearing yourself out for crap like that?
For guys who just decided themselves whether you were an angel or a demon, interpreted it however they liked, used you and trashed you?
And you think working hard, serving them, loving them was all for some good purpose…?
To me, you’ll always be that kind Oniichan.
You could’ve left me alone, but you were desperate to reach out and take my hand. You didn’t abandon me, you loved me as my Oniichan.
And yet, you broke the one promise I didn’t ever want to be broken, whether it was the world or fate or whatever…
It just doesn’t sit well with me. It really pisses me off.
Rei: Kukuku. You are still a child, still in your growing stages…
But even if you rush to get older like me, there is not much to gain besides things getting a little easier.
You should enjoy your youth, this springtime of your life – Ritsu, my cute little brother.
Then one day, please tell me all you’ve experienced, every precious, shining thing. Then, at the moment I die, the very instant either an angel or a demon comes for me…
Only then shall I show you “the real Rei Sakuma”. This is a promise. Though, I do not know if it will be what you expect.
But for now… please, allow me to be as I am.
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< bright complex Chapter 8
