章 7: Omake

<p>When I came to, I was in a burning inferno.<br/>The familiar city had turned to ashes. It looked like the remnants of a battlefield.<br/>Yet that thought didn't last long, either.<br/>The fire had died down by the time the sun rose.<br/>The wall of flame had shortened. Most of the buildings had fallen and returned to rubble. A strange feeling bubbled up from my stomach, being the only thing in this place that still had its original form.<br/>I was the only living being here.<br/>It must be luck, or my house was outside of ground zero.<br/>I don't know which it was, but the point is, I was the only one left alive.<br/>Since I survived, I should live on.<br/>I started aimlessly walking because I thought it would be dangerous just to stay there.<br/>I wasn't concerned about getting burned up like the people lying around me. Some of them were familiar to me. Yet I could not recall. Especially that woman in twin tails, she was calling out for help. My heart ached, yet my body did not have any strength left to help her.<br/>It was probably because: over and above, I did not want to be like them.<br/>But still, there was no hope left. It was already a wonder I was still alive, so I couldn't expect to be saved.<br/>I won't survive. Whatever happens, I won't be able to escape from this red world.<br/>And I collapsed.<br/>Was it because there was no air? Was it because there were no functions left in my body?<br/>I collapsed and stared up at the clouded sky. Everything around me burned up.<br/>The dark clouds loomed overhead, telling me it would rain soon. That was good. Once it rains, the fire would be put out.<br/>In the end, I sighed deeply and looked up at the sky.<br/>"It's hurt," I said to myself.<br/>I say so on behalf of people who couldn't even say so.<br/>With one hand reaching toward the sky, my feelings lashed out. Not toward others, but the world.<br/>All my anger was aimed toward the injustice that I and many others faced.<br/>I HATE IT!<br/>I HATE THIS!<br/>I WANT THIS PAIN TO END!<br/>I WANT EVERYTHING TO END!<br/>Yet, my body finally succumbed to its weakness, and my hand fell. Then, an unfamiliar hand grasped it.<br/>"If you hated this world this much, I can help you. Name your wish. What's your name, Boy." A man spoke out to me.<br/>"Bell… Just Bell."<br/>"Very well, Bell! I, Angra Mainyu, All of the World Evils, will grant your wish to destroy this wretched world!"<br/>Then, the man turned himself into the mud and fused into the boy's body.<br/>That day, seven billion curses were inflicted upon the world. The world is covered in mud. The ooze eroded and killed everything in its sight.<br/>Death from poisons.<br/>Death from blades.<br/>Death from old age.<br/>DEATH<br/>DIE! DIE! DIE!<br/>DIE SO I CAN MAKE THE WORLD ANEW!</p>