Blake Noah was standing in front of his sister's hospital bed.

"No matter what the circumstances, life is never hopeless. As long as...... As long as we are still together and supporting each other......

My brother will always protect you, won't he?"

He remembered the way he had sworn to his sister as he had crawled back from the sordid battlefield.

"It's ugly. He looked at his sister's pale face and muttered to himself.

Don't be infected with the plague, Grace......

Your ugly brother is really useless......

The doctor quickly finished his consultation and walked out of the room.

Blake followed and walked out, looking hopeful.

However, the well-dressed doctor just shook his head and left.

...... The emergence of a new plague almost means death.

No one knows how to fight it, even professional epidemic doctors.

"No, it's not really ......"

He was afraid of making his sister think too much, so he hurriedly walked back to the room again.

"Brother...... What's wrong?"

"The doctor is gone...... I am...... Is there no help...... Right?"

She barely spoke, speaking the short words in a thin voice, and then her breathing became shorter and shorter.

"Don't think about it. Blake barely managed to squeeze out a smile that he thought was warm enough, "The doctor has already said that it's okay, it's just a common cold, as long as you recuperate and take medicine well, it will be fine." Don't worry. ”

"Yes...... Is that so......"

"yes. But don't say it, medicine is really hard to find during the plague now, alas. Maybe I'll have to find a way to find enough to find enough of the less severe plague, or even the origin of the herbs......" In a split second he thought of his words, and he gave a hearty but somewhat embarrassed look.

"I didn't ...... It's okay......" The girl's voice gradually lowered, and then she fell into a deep sleep as if exhausted.

"I'll heal you. Blake clenched his fists, his cyan veins bursting like a viper, but then he let go of his hand, kissed his sister lightly on the forehead, put on his trench coat, and slowly closed the door to the room.

"......" He slumped back in his chair and covered his face.

Can't cry. None of those comrades-in-arms who wept on the battlefield came back alive.

Even if you encounter something...... Whatever it is......

"What else can I do......"

He felt the palms of his hands covering his face soak with moisture.

He removed his wet gloves, revealing his right, which had become somewhat blackened.

Although I have always told people that it was caused by injuries on the battlefield, I was the only one...... And that person knows......

He hesitated to uncover his blackened, chapped skin.

It would be very painful, but Grace ......

“...... Let's see if we can find that person first. He hurriedly wiped his face, put his gloves back on, and walked out of the house.

If it's that person...... If it's a man who dares to face God......

It must be possible.

Blake clenched the dagger in his arms.

......

It's a street that hasn't been visited, but according to the business card the person gave him, it should be this place.

But after some inquiry, he only heard that after Mr. Zero was wanted by the Holy See, it seemed that someone from the Holy See tried to search Mr. Zero's home, and then Mr. Zero's fiancée, Her Royal Highness the Princess of the Kingdom, stopped him.

Shaking his head, he couldn't help but sigh that he was carried away: how could a person who was already wanted easily leave clues about his whereabouts?

However, if it was the person's fiancée, would she know something......

There was a knock on the door, but no one answered for a long time.

It's probably already empty.

“...... So that's all it can be......"

Blake came somewhere far from his home.

Avoiding everyone's eyes and ears, slowly peel off the layer of skin covering your right hand......

The unnamed thing in darkness is revealed from underneath.

Just by lifting a trace, Blake's mind was already filled with auditory hallucinations.

"Ah, it's you, my dear, great beneficial~" The sharp voice echoed continuously, and then stirred up more noise.

"No matter how you speak, it's the Divine Favorite!Divine Favorite, you know!" the strange laughter was noisy.

"No, no, it's the Children of Darkness, this is the right name for you! Knock, we betrayed the Children of Darkness and are back!"

"Come back, come back!" the murmur echoed, echoed, as if it never ended.

"I knew you were going to be back, kid. The dark and twisted old man looked at him with a grin: "Those who step into the darkness can no longer tolerate the light world, and the light world will never tolerate what you want to lurk in." ”

"Yes, yes, how nostalgic it is to come and live freely with us, why did you betray the darkness?" sneered in a black mass that vaguely formed the shape of a girl.

"Come on, come on, we hate you, but you're back, still the same chosen by God. It's the lucky ones who have been chosen by the Great, and all of us still don't dare to disobey you, Gahahaha-" The dim shadow swirl swayed and sighed.

"Hahaha~"

Everything in the world is smiling.

Blake reluctantly looked away from his "hand", and before his eyes, the world seemed to be divided into two halves, swaying and changing, but the boundaries were not clear.

But not only did he see the darkness lurking in everything grinning at him madly, he saw everything in the normal world, houses, plants, sky, earth, everything...... also twisted and shook his body, as if dancing to say goodbye:

"Look, look, he's finally going back, and I know he's not going to be here at all......"

He covered his head and let out a near-death scream, "Enough, enough! If it weren't for her, if it wasn't for Grace, if it wasn't for my sister...... I won't touch this monster sealed by Mr. Zero!The dark thing is not something I want to obtain, it's just that it invades my body on its own......"

He argued loudly, but he didn't know whether to defend himself against the dark world or the light world.

"Oh oh oh, when you encounter difficulties, you think of us, it's really kind~"

"Huhuhu, here again, here again, poor creature with a weak will, who was persuaded to fall down by that strange man in the dark, and now when he encounters a little setback in the light, he will cry and come back to his mother for nursery......"

"And all the reasons are pushed outward! Poor, hahaha......"

Poor poor.

The echo is still stirring.

"No, no, no, you monsters, you won't understand me, let alone the bonds of family affection, etc...... You're just trying to take over my body and destroy the world! I don't have any sense of self in the polluted moment! Mr. Zero just saved me......" he roared and asked what he wanted to say, "Hey, this plague, this weird plague, you feel it too!"

The ...... darkness was silent for a moment, followed by a burst of shrill laughter: "Hey, did you hear me, did you hear me?" ”

"Yes, yes, no shame, no shame. What the hell is it like, are you still living in the era before you didn't betray?"

"Ridiculous, ridiculous, my dear great son of darkness~"

Ridiculous, ridiculous, ridiculous, ridiculous.

The darkness was shouting taunts.

I don't know if the world of light is also mixed in.

“...... My sister is infected by the plague, and I need a cure! Please! You are all over the world, you can feel it! If there is any way!"

"Eh, hey, he's begging us, he's begging us!"

"yes, yes, what then, what to do?"

Whispers erupted.

“...... Yes, yes, please help me this time...... I can't find Mr. Zero anymore...... It is only possible to rely on your strength......" The iron-blooded ex-soldier fell to the ground at this moment.

"Haha, hahaha, such a humiliating look, no, my stomach is going to burst with laughter...... "The laughter in the invisible darkness grew stronger and stronger, "God, did you listen to our request when you betrayed the darkness and turned your back on us?"

"But I'm very generous. Is there a way to do it? Let me tell you: there is no help. ”

"It's not saved, it's not saved, your sister is dead, hahaha~" The happy voice also echoed.

Dead, dead, dead.

So there was only one voice left in Blake's world.

“......”

He staggered back to press his chapped skin back.

The world is gradually returning to its original state.

"It won't be hopeless. It won't be hopeless. He whispered to himself as if he had gone crazy, and noticed that the blood from his nose had stained the front collar red.

"How could you not be saved? Grace, you won't die. ”

After all, you're the only one left in my world, sister.