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章節 700: Revenge and Justice

Ryuu finally gave up when she was about to lose her consciousness from depleting her Magic Power. She doesn't know how Kisuke was reflecting her healing magic back at her but this isn't the time for that.

Standing up with great difficulty, Ryuu went towards the two remains of the Adventurer. After offering her prayer, she picked up their bags and took a good look inside them.

The food has already gone bad and the bottle of half-used potion only has a little bit of Magic Power in it. However, what she's looking for is their first aid kit. While the cream that can close small wounds has already gone bad, there are still clean bandages left, 'Great. This should be enough with the potion.'

Although the potion was almost useless in healing wounds, it's still useful for safely cleaning them. Grabbing what she needed, Ryuu struggled with the pain of her broken leg before reaching Kisuke once again, "Remove your clothes. Let's bandage those wounds up."

Kisuke looked at her eyes for a moment and saw the extremely serious expression she's making. Figuring out that there's no way to convince her otherwise, Kisuke slowly took off his clothes while smiling wryly, 'I guess she won't be comforted until she does something.'

Finally taking off his blood-soaked top, Ryuu drew in a cold breath from what she saw what seemed to be hundreds of cuts covering his entire body, "Y-you... You're not dying, right!?"

"Hmm? Of course not. Take a closer look. They've already stopped bleeding."

And indeed, upon closer inspection, none of them were shedding any more blood and a huge feeling of relief came to Ryuu, along with intense guilt, "I'm sorry... This is my fault."

"Promise me that you won't do a stunt like that again."

Ryuu looked straight into his eyes before saying, "...I promise."

Smiling, Kisuke replied, "Then you're forgiven~"

But Ryuu could only smile wryly on that, "I don't know what to feel if you were to forgive me that easily."

"There's no reason for me to make it harder. Besides, there's something else you need to say, isn't it?"

Ryuu's wry smile eased up to a gentle one and said, "Yes. That's right. Thank you. Thank you for saving me."

"You're very much welcome~" Kisuke then closed his eyes to refocus his concentration on what he needed to do. However, that doesn't mean he didn't leave any attention to their surroundings and Ryuu herself.

Ryuu, meanwhile, seeing Kisuke's behavior, got free reign over what she wanted to do. Carefully managing the potion and water they have, Ryuu was able to clean Kisuke's wound without wasting any of their supplies. But also thanks to that, Ryuu was able to properly see Kisuke's current state and couldn't help in shivering, 'Each one of them are deep wounds... How is he still fine with all of this? And he didn't even let out a single yelp despite my being rough in some places.'

Pushing those thoughts to the back of her mind, Ryuu proceeded to wrap Kisuke with the bandages she got. And while doing so, she couldn't help but think about all sorts of things due to the silence. Inadvertently, she asked, "Say... Urahara-san... What do you think of revenge?"

Without opening his eyes, Kisuke entertained Ryuu's question, "Hmm... Let's see... There are many types of revenge out there but generally speaking, it's an attempt to regain what you've lost. Even if you're successful, you're just zeroing out and nothing would really change except for momentary fulfillment. And depending on how much that 'revenge' got hold of you, it'll be followed by emptiness."

Ryuu became silent and momentarily stopped what she's doing but resumed it not long after, "...I see. This is the first time of hearing such a take on revenge, however, I fully agree with you. After the momentary fulfillment, it was followed by endless emptiness."

If not for Syr taking her out of that emptiness, Ryuu doesn't know how she would have ended up.

"Do you mind if you listen to my story?" Ryuu suddenly asked.

"Sure. We have all the time we need."

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.

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Ryuu reminisced and narrated her days within the Astraea Familia. She told Kisuke how they were widely accepted as the police force and a very welcome one at that in the time of Dark Ages where the Guild can't do their job in suppressing those who wanted to harm the city.

Her story then reached the part where the alliance of 'evil' aligned Familias formed and came to be known as the Evilus and their large attack led by Erebus and two former members of the Zeus and Hera Familias 7 years ago.

It was while defending the city with all their lives they came to understand that, while the rest of the Evilus just wanted to raze Orario to the ground with their twisted beliefs, Erebus, the Evil God, Zald, and Alfia, the former members of the Zeus and Hera Familias, just wanted to destroy the lid that is blocking the Dungeon in attempt to return the time back to the Heroic Age.

"So they were hoping for a hero to arise from the destruction they wrought. Why did they hope for that in the first place?" Kisuke commented.

"It's only something I'd heard later, but apparently, despite being the strongest Familia and successfully subjugating two of the World Quests, they couldn't even wound the Black Dragon. However, the fact that it has one of its eyes taken out was a testament to the strength of the people of the Heroic Age, where monsters ran rampant on the surface despite having only the assistance of the Spirits."

Ryuu then shook her head before continuing, "But I can never agree with their methods of sacrificing the innocent even if it means saving the world from the threat of an unbeatable monster. Then again, I don't really have the right to say that because I turned my back against those innocent people to pursue my own darkness."

Kisuke stayed silent and allowed Ryuu to continue her story. He wanted to say something to her, but he held it off because he wanted to hear the rest of her story and make sure that he wasn't misunderstanding anything.

Ryuu touched the subject regarding the nightmare of the 27th floor 6 years ago but didn't know much of it because it was mainly the Loki, Ganesha, and Freya Familias' attack on Evilus.

And when she reached the subject of 5 years ago, Ryuu's tone audibly changed as she slowly narrated how her Familia fell into the trap of the Rudra Familia and summoned a Juggernaut just like the incident earlier which resulted in the annihilation of the Astraea Familia with her surviving only because her precious companions sacrificed themselves so that she could have enough time to run away.

Being overtaken by her desire for vengeance, Astraea left her after 'ordering' her to discard her 'justice'.

Hence Ryuu started her rampage on those with even a slight connection to Evilus, killing everyone except for the Deities. Even though what Ryuu committed was a very heavy crime of massacring people, it also ended the Dark Ages with the round-up of the remaining Evilus members.

At that point, Kisuke finally understood clearly what's bothering her and said, "You can't move on because you can't admit it."

"What...?"

"You can't admit and come to terms with yourself that you thought that the heinous crime you committed was the right thing to do."


創作者的想法
Goyya Goyya

Editors:

28th00: Denial isn’t supposed to last this long, ya know?

Goyya: It’s her only way of escape. Sometimes, denial is a good thing to keep on moving on, until it comes back and bite you.

章節 701: Revenge and Justice part 2

"I... I thought it was the right thing to do?" A sudden headache assaulted Ryuu's head as she was forced to think back to where it all started.

Ryuu stopped what she's doing and held her head. As if a cold wind blew, she started shivering, "N-no... t-that can't be..."

Kisuke looked at her fear-filled face but didn't say anything, 'Let's see... Are you going to run away or confront it this time? If it's the latter, you'll forever be in the shadows of your late comrades.'

Due to Elves' upbringing, most of them are prideful and look down on other races, but they are also righteous thanks to that. However, that also means that they are the beings that see the world closer to black and white when they shouldn't.

So when they did something that went against their beliefs, the most likely scenario was that said Elf would continue down on that path with extreme aggressiveness, retaining their pride and discarding their righteousness while others would retain their righteousness and discard their pride, forever stuck in their mistake and self-loathing.

Although she hated the other Elves for looking down on others, Ryuu still has the pride and righteousness of one. By discarding her 'justice', she was able to retain both of her pride and righteousness by making the latter vague, creating a delicate balance in her mind, and became her source of escapism after the deed 5 years ago.

And by meeting Syr, although she never forgot her past actions, what she's feeling that time became unclear, creating stability in her mental health.

These days, however, she's forced to think back about her rampage and Kisuke just had to push her beyond the cliff that she may not be able to return from.

One might think that an old, wise, and knowledgeable Deity will be able to help her with their wisdom, however, the Gods have a fatal flaw that all of their beliefs and perspectives are influenced by their own Divinity and one line of general thinking won't be able to help Ryuu.

So despite knowing where the real problem with Ryuu lies, Astraea couldn't as she presides over Justice, Innocence, Purity, and Precision.

Kisuke, on the other hand, was directly on the opposite spectrum of the idealistic Deities. And if he can help Ryuu by just opening his mouth a bit, why not? 'Hmmm... This reaction... I guess I hit the nail?'

At this time, Ryuu's mind started closing off as her surroundings darkened from her perspective and she was taken back moments after her Familia's annihilation and her rampage. As if her own mind started torturing her, that moment kept repeating over and over again.

And in each repetition, Kisuke's last words became clearer and clearer which made her remember what really pushed her to do all those things. It was something she forgot..., no, it was something she chose not to think about to protect herself. It was a simple fact that she thought that what she had done was the right thing to do.

Ryuu thought that her massacre, which was deemed to be one of the worst in the history of Orario, was the right thing to do.

"...No..." She muttered as she hugged her shivering body tight.

"Really? Do you want to run away? Again? Your righteousness only amounted to this?"

Hurriedly raising her head, Ryuu looked towards Kisuke and saw the apparent disappointment on his face, "... I."

"If your own righteousness was so important to you, why do you turn a blind eye to your own actions?"

Ryuu looked down and became silent after hearing that. A few minutes later, her shaking stopped, and looked back up with a smile accompanied by a devastated expression, "You're correct. I didn't want to admit it, but back then, I thought it was the right thing to do."

It was then that her tears started falling and her smile began cracking badly, "Very hypocritical, isn't it? I fought for what's right all my life yet I allowed that meaningless revenge to take hold of me. I'm not even deceiving myself when I think that I'm doing the right thing and taking all those lives. In hindsight, I'm no better than those people."

And just as Astraea feared, Ryuu began contemplating if she should just end her life.

While clouded by her own thoughts, Ryuu suddenly felt pain on her nose and pulled her back to see that Kisuke was pinching her nose with a cheeky grin, "See? You can admit it, after all, ~ If you can admit it, then you can definitely face it, so stop making that expression. I'm not going to allow you to escape by taking your own life."

"...Please let me go," Ryuu replied with a nasally voice.

However, Kisuke didn't listen and even pulled up Ryuu's nose, prompting the latter to cry out, "Say... What's so wrong with doing what you thought is right that you're having an existential crisis?"

Ryuu tried to pull off Kisuke's hand but his grip wouldn't let go. Despite this, she still answered, "Because what I did was wrong from the start."

"So you've changed your mind regarding your actions?"

Ryuu stopped moving and became silent, 'Would I have done something different despite knowing the result?' She asked herself. She was about to descend to her own world once again but Kisuke pulled her nose again, pulling her back, and made her remember his words, 'If I can admit it... I can definitely face it, huh...'

She then realized that she really has nothing to lose anymore and decided to take a step forward, "No... I never changed my mind. If I'm thrown into that kind of situation once again, I would do the same thing, thinking it was the right thing to do and ignoring the consequences. Even then, I still believe something like that is wrong."

Kisuke smiled and let go of her nose, "I'll ask once again. What makes it so wrong?"

"Because it just is."

"So this is your justice? The justice you learned to believe?"

Ryuu nodded while nursing her nose, "That's correct."

"A blind justice, huh... How stupid."

"Huh!?" Ryuu was instantly taken aback by his words.

"I said it's stupid. Blind justice is a plain stupid justice!"

While Ryuu was speechless, Kisuke continued his words as if he's venting at the stupid notion of blind justice, "Blind justice might be good on paper, and it's indeed good for a society that has a set of rules, however, this also paints the world black and white which is very far from reality! In other words, real blind justice is just a utopian idea! And every utopian idea is also just a dystopian idea if you look at it in another way!"

Ryuu wanted to say something but Kisuke interrupted her, "I'm not being rude to you or anything, but in my opinion, blind justice is just fake justice! Though I'm open to criticism that might change my mind."


創作者的想法
Goyya Goyya

Editors:

28th00: Justice debates, how nostalgic~! I hate justice though.

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