Blame v2c16

I should have held back just one more time.

But that’s the thing. These idiots with no fucking ability but high ideals need to know reality a bit.

…Still, I should have held back just one more time.

Even though he must have felt the stinging gazes, the small gray ashen crown of his head didn’t move.

“Let’s see it in person first and talk.”

Evil spat out irritably, then wrapped one arm around Cheche’s waist and flew up just like that. Before anyone could stop them, he rose high into the sky in an instant and flew toward the direction the earthquake tsunami was coming from. So fast he would become a dot.

The people left behind couldn’t say anything and only met each other’s eyes.

The place Evil headed to while holding Cheche with one arm was the sea where the earthquake tsunami was coming. As they crossed over the sea and went further inside, the sea surface became terrifyingly blue without a single impurity.

Because they were flying at high speed, Evil held Cheche’s waist firmly and created an invisible barrier so he could breathe comfortably.

“This is called a barrier, and you can do it with Soul Aura too. I’ll teach you.”

“……”

Cheche said nothing.

‘I’m going crazy.’

He could feel Cheche’s small breaths inhaling and exhaling against his chest. The hand that had been wandering not knowing where to go grabbed his forearm, weak and ticklish like a young sparrow landing. The flat stomach rising and falling under the arm wrapped around his waist, the lowered eyelashes fluttering—Evil felt like he was going crazy.

“Hey… you need to gain some weight.”

“……”

“You’re not even a fucking baby sparrow, really.”

“……”

“You… I’ll, I’ll support your butt. This position is dangerous.”

Evil slowly lowered the arm that had been wrapped around Cheche’s waist. His butt touched his forearm, and it became a position as if Cheche was sitting on Evil’s forearm.

“Put your left arm around my neck. I said it’s dangerous.”

It wasn’t dangerous at all and there was no need to put his arm around. Even if he weren’t an SSS Motioner, he could easily support a body as light as down.

“This is above the sea. Do you want to die?”

“……”

Only after growling did Cheche slowly wrap his arm around Evil’s neck. Evil inwardly sighed and decided not to threaten with asking if he wanted to die from now on. This refugee bastard might really want to die.

Feeling the small butt squirming on his forearm felt both good and even more agonizing.

Cheche rested his head on Evil’s shoulder and just quietly breathed. Could a person breathing feel this cute and pitiful? Evil spoke to him bluntly for no reason.

“Do you by any chance have acrophobia?”

“……”

“Answer me. Did you become mute after being deaf? Are you protesting because you’re sulking?”

“No.”

Cheche’s voice was indifferent and dry as always. Evil felt somewhat relieved at that.

“Look down at the scenery and stuff. When else will you get to fly over the sea?”

“……”

Supporting Cheche’s butt with his left arm, he stealthily raised his right arm that had been wandering in the air and placed it on Cheche’s waist. When Cheche raised his head, Evil showed the most wonderful smile he could make.

“Look at the sea. The waves are rough, but rough seas are pretty good in their own way.”

Cheche seemed to hesitate a bit, then slightly turned his head to look down. His golden eyes began to be dyed with blue.

Evil didn’t know, but this was the first time Cheche was seeing the sea with his naked eyes. The sea near Tar couldn’t be accessed because of government military surveillance. Cheche saw the sea for the first time when boarding a plane with the Endem family’s help to escape Tar. The sea that day looked like a blue land. It was calm and blue as if it would welcome you if you jumped in.

The time Cheche stuck to the small airplane window and looked down at the magnificent sea that day was less than a minute. Cheche erased his appreciation of nature and returned to expressionlessness, lowering the blind.

Today’s sea was quite different from then. It wasn’t calm, and rather than blue it was dark blue and very cold. The sound of the wind also noisily struck his ears. Usually when an earthquake tsunami rushes in, it’s creepily calm, but this time a rainstorm was blowing as well.

The rough sea didn’t seem like it would embrace visitors. Rather… it seemed like it would swallow them whole.

If I jumped into those depths, a small body like this would disappear in an instant.

As if it never existed in this world.

This side was actually more comfortable.

Since it’s not beautiful at all, it would forgive me for continuing to look down at it.

“It’s spectacular.”

However, Evil seemed to sincerely find this scenery beautiful.

“The sound of the waves is fucking loud, but anyway the land is just as noisy. Let’s go to Yuchuri Beach when work’s done. It’s the only place worth seeing in this shitty country, and they said the water depth isn’t deep and the current is calm. I haven’t been there either but… ah, I can see it.”

At Evil’s words, Cheche raised his head. Evil must have seen the tsunami rushing in at high speed, but it wasn’t visible to Cheche’s eyes.

“I’m going fast. Hold on tight.”

Cheche put more strength into the hand placed on Evil’s forearm and the arm wrapped around his neck. Burying his face in his chest and hugging tightly, the corners of Evil’s mouth kept grinning.

The tsunami was truly magnificent.

White spray filled the entire view. It came rushing in with a rumbling roar, large enough to devour the beach area in an instant. It looked like a living monster.

Modern natural disasters differ in scale from past natural disasters. For example, even earthquake tsunamis in the past didn’t have high waves until reaching land, but currently they’re already this high even at a distance far from land.

This was why many people believed the theory that Aura Users were a gift from the earth. That the earth gave birth to Aura Users because natural disasters became so powerful that humans couldn’t handle them.

As a real monster who could eliminate that level of monster with a single gesture, Evil felt no emotion, but he felt the small body in his arms trembling. Evil was a bit surprised.

“Are you scared?”

“No, I’m cold.”

“Ah…”

To dismiss it as making excuses while scared, the temperature was considerably low.

‘At this rate he’ll catch a cold again. I should solve this quickly.’

Approaching rapidly in front of the tsunami, Evil stretched out the hand that had been wrapped around Cheche’s waist toward the waves.

Water droplets splashed near Cheche’s eyes. Like sparks flying, coldness spread.

“Open your eyes wide and watch carefully.”

Cheche, who had reflexively closed his eyes, barely lifted his eyelids while frowning.

Swoosh…

The roar disappeared. The white spray and the wave that had been higher than a high-rise building were breaking apart and falling finely. The tsunami that seemed like it would swallow everything was losing its form as weakly as spring rain.

All Evil had done was reach his hand toward it. With that single gesture, the disaster that would have killed thousands of people, created hundreds of thousands of refugees, and caused billions in damage scattered into water droplets.

This was precisely the kind of power that would be forgiven even if it killed people.

A superpower so strong it didn’t even make you think it was overwhelming. To people desperately in need of help, it was great enough to seem like the advent of an omnipotent god.

Cheche rested his head on Evil’s shoulder.

This was the first time seeing it directly.

Beyond the tsunami disappearing into foam, a red sunset appeared. By whatever means Evil had used, the rainstorm also stopped, and the red sunset spread like paint over the sea with low waves.

Cheche raised his head. The sunset also descended on Evil’s firmly closed solid jaw. Evil was looking at the disappearing tsunami with emotionless eyes, but when he felt Cheche’s gaze, he met his eyes and grinned.

It was a very confident and wonderful smile.

“Let’s go now.”

Evil gathered Cheche in his arms. At the movement to go back, Cheche hurriedly grabbed his shoulder.

“Why?”

“I’d like to stay a bit longer.”

“So why? To do what?”

“……”

Cheche felt he wanted to see a bit more. Both the sunset-colored foam and the absolute being before his eyes who considered such things trivial.

However, he couldn’t say he wanted to see more.

Cheche had been cursed since he was very young to be unable to say words that revealed his personal desires. He had been under a curse for a very long time to endure unless it was for everyone’s benefit.

Evil clicked his tongue at the refugee closing his lips.

“Just try catching a cold. I’ll kill you.”