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shivalriesSeason: Autumn
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[Judgment Stage]
Tsukasa: (Ahh…)
(I’m always nervous the moment I stand on stage. It feels as if I’m frozen to my fingertips.)
(What if I fail, if I reveal some unsightly side of me… I’m so anxious, I want to run away.)
(But I have a joy even greater than my anxiety. Suffering and fear… I will thrust a sword into such indescribable demons, control them, and become stronger.)
(That realization has always brought me to this stage.)
(With smiles, the audience is waiting for our songs, our dances, our performance.)
(I must not run away, not even from a battle I have no chance of winning.)
(To find that one-in-a-million victory. ...No, even if I end up crawling along the ground in disgrace…)
(If I can give all the audience who came to see us even the smallest taste of a pleasant experience...)
(I, Tsukasa Suou… while inexperienced, will stand on the battlefield.)
(It is time. Please watch over me, Oneesama.)
Leo: Heya~ Newbie. That’s a nice face you got there.♪
When we first met… You were like this young master who’d been brought up like a spoiled little baby.
Like, he looks weak, what's up with that? You looked like you’d die if I touched you. Instead of a knight, you were more like a princess!
Kidding, but I was seriously worried!
Wahahaha☆ I’ll acknowledge it. You are Knights too! You’re a proud knight, though still a chick.♪
You did a good job coming up onstage without running away, even though your comrades are all gone?
Rittsu, Sena, Naru… They’ve all fallen. They fought with all their might, but their turns are now over.
And everyone here besides me has been annihilated too. Well, the guys in Knight Killers cooperated with me out of their own good will.
It’s not like I could ask them to risk their lives for me, right?
Or maybe they purposefully gave us our turn. Yumenosaki Academy is chock full of softhearted guys like that.
In the dog-eat-dog world of entertainment, are they really going to be okay?
Well, that's fine too! I love guys like that!
I adore them, wahahaha...☆
Humans are so great, though they tend to get tied down by numbers and obligations and other unnecessary stuff!
I’ve seen enough of those kinds of people to get sick of them, they’re so boring and I hate them, you see?
All the idiots playing around Yumenosaki Academy are now wonderfully free, rejoicing in their youth! I’m glad I came back, truly, seriously!
Ahh, I could write so many masterpieces!☆
Tsukasa: Leader… How far did you calculate this?
From the beginning, this Judgment was…
Just a fight between you and me. I flared up at you because I was unsatisfied with your methods, and you accepted my challenge.
If you take off the lid, then… it becomes a one-on-one fight between you and me. Simplifying it to the bare minimum, that is the composition of this fight.
Did you predict everything up until this point? All for this moment, to stage this ending…
Did you gather together the comrades you needed, lay out your opening moves, and make every preparation for this?
All to create a conclusion like this, even for such a Judgment...?
You appeared to have deployed the members of Knight Killers effectively in all respects.
Did you supply every weapon with precision, gain a firm grasp on the battlefield, and guide everything to this point?
Was everything in the palm of your hand, from the beginning to the end? If that is so…
I am deeply moved. I’m still not able to match up to my seniors, huh?
Leo: ...You overestimate me, Newbie. I’m not some omnipotent, all-powerful god.
Of course I’m a great genius loved by the gods, but I’m not a god myself.
A long time ago, I misunderstood that.
I thought that I could do anything, that I knew everything.
I did whatever I wanted. I manipulated many people and hurt them.
It wasn't until after I made an irreparable mistake that I finally realized it. It was late, too late.
I lost everything, and I ran away, taking no responsibility. To be honest, I have no right to be standing here right now.
That's the kind of pitiful, embarrassing guy I am.
I’m just a naked king, who didn't notice something even a baby understood.
To be served by knights, to have their devotion and loyalty - I don't deserve any of that.
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Edit 17/10/16 readability fixes
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< Epilogue 2 || Masterlist || Epilogue 4 >
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[Judgment Stage]
Tsukasa: (Ahh…)
(I’m always nervous the moment I stand on stage. It feels as if I’m frozen to my fingertips.)
(What if I fail, if I reveal some unsightly side of me… I’m so anxious, I want to run away.)
(But I have a joy even greater than my anxiety. Suffering and fear… I will thrust a sword into such indescribable demons, control them, and become stronger.)
(That realization has always brought me to this stage.)
(With smiles, the audience is waiting for our songs, our dances, our performance.)
(I must not run away, not even from a battle I have no chance of winning.)
(To find that one-in-a-million victory. ...No, even if I end up crawling along the ground in disgrace…)
(If I can give all the audience who came to see us even the smallest taste of a pleasant experience...)
(I, Tsukasa Suou… while inexperienced, will stand on the battlefield.)
(It is time. Please watch over me, Oneesama.)
Leo: Heya~ Newbie. That’s a nice face you got there.♪
When we first met… You were like this young master who’d been brought up like a spoiled little baby.
Like, he looks weak, what's up with that? You looked like you’d die if I touched you. Instead of a knight, you were more like a princess!
Kidding, but I was seriously worried!
Wahahaha☆ I’ll acknowledge it. You are Knights too! You’re a proud knight, though still a chick.♪
You did a good job coming up onstage without running away, even though your comrades are all gone?
Rittsu, Sena, Naru… They’ve all fallen. They fought with all their might, but their turns are now over.
And everyone here besides me has been annihilated too. Well, the guys in Knight Killers cooperated with me out of their own good will.
It’s not like I could ask them to risk their lives for me, right?
Or maybe they purposefully gave us our turn. Yumenosaki Academy is chock full of softhearted guys like that.
In the dog-eat-dog world of entertainment, are they really going to be okay?
Well, that's fine too! I love guys like that!
I adore them, wahahaha...☆
Humans are so great, though they tend to get tied down by numbers and obligations and other unnecessary stuff!
I’ve seen enough of those kinds of people to get sick of them, they’re so boring and I hate them, you see?
All the idiots playing around Yumenosaki Academy are now wonderfully free, rejoicing in their youth! I’m glad I came back, truly, seriously!
Ahh, I could write so many masterpieces!☆
Tsukasa: Leader… How far did you calculate this?
From the beginning, this Judgment was…
Just a fight between you and me. I flared up at you because I was unsatisfied with your methods, and you accepted my challenge.
If you take off the lid, then… it becomes a one-on-one fight between you and me. Simplifying it to the bare minimum, that is the composition of this fight.
Did you predict everything up until this point? All for this moment, to stage this ending…
Did you gather together the comrades you needed, lay out your opening moves, and make every preparation for this?
All to create a conclusion like this, even for such a Judgment...?
You appeared to have deployed the members of Knight Killers effectively in all respects.
Did you supply every weapon with precision, gain a firm grasp on the battlefield, and guide everything to this point?
Was everything in the palm of your hand, from the beginning to the end? If that is so…
I am deeply moved. I’m still not able to match up to my seniors, huh?
Leo: ...You overestimate me, Newbie. I’m not some omnipotent, all-powerful god.
Of course I’m a great genius loved by the gods, but I’m not a god myself.
A long time ago, I misunderstood that.
I thought that I could do anything, that I knew everything.
I did whatever I wanted. I manipulated many people and hurt them.
It wasn't until after I made an irreparable mistake that I finally realized it. It was late, too late.
I lost everything, and I ran away, taking no responsibility. To be honest, I have no right to be standing here right now.
That's the kind of pitiful, embarrassing guy I am.
I’m just a naked king, who didn't notice something even a baby understood.
To be served by knights, to have their devotion and loyalty - I don't deserve any of that.
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Edit 17/10/16 readability fixes
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< Epilogue 2 || Masterlist || Epilogue 4 >
