Chapter 660 Chizuru
Yokohama City.
A certain nursing home.
The hazy moonlight passed through the windows and sprinkled on the neat white floor tiles, emitting a faint shimmering light.
On a wooden chair in the center of the room, a white-haired grandmother was bowing her head, her silver-white hair hanging down over her wrinkled face as she carefully folded paper cranes in her palm by the light of the moon.
Underneath her, hundreds of paper cranes had drowned her feet, like a small mountain piled high.
Suddenly, as if she sensed something, she looked up at the bright moon outside the window, and an unprecedented clarity emerged in her cloudy eyes!
Little Yuzu Pear ……
She muttered.
Grandma Crane in room 32, it’s time to go to bed ~ the voice of the caregiver came from outside the door.
As if she hadn’t heard her words, Grandma Crane tremblingly stood up from the wooden chair, stepped her feet through the sea of paper cranes, slowly walked over to the window, and forcefully pushed this window open.
Grandma Crane, I’m coming in!
The sound of the caretaker turning the door handle rang out.
Grandma Crane looked up at the moon and slowly closed her eyes, and in the next moment, her body unexpectedly turned into one floating paper crane after another, dissipating into the air!
These paper cranes looked like they had come to life, vibrating their wings like a large white cloud, flying up into the dark night sky from the open window!
The caretaker pushed open the door of the room.
She saw the empty room and suddenly froze in place.
Grandma Crane, Grandma Crane?
She saw the open window, walked blankly over to it, looked up, and saw a cloud of snow-white paper cranes rising up to meet the bright moonlight and disappearing into the clouds ……
Osaka.
The paper crane lying in Yuzu Rina’s palm trembled gently.
This paper crane lifted its wings and flew under Yuzurina’s gaze, and even though there was a scorched bullet mark on its back, it did not affect its movements at all, and drifted straight toward the sky.
The moment she saw this bullet mark, Yuzuru Rina finally understood that she was captured by that group of gangsters to the warehouse, why there was no wound on her body after she was shot ……
Originally, she thought that the other party had missed, but now it seems that it was this paper crane hidden on her body that helped her escape.
Yuzu Rina watched as this paper crane flew up into the sky and disappeared behind the clouds, and a few moments later, a huge cloud of paper cranes tumbled out from under the night sky and surged straight towards Yuzu Rina!
These paper cranes surrounded Yuzu Rina’s side, like a snow-white crane wind rotating, Yuzu Rina stood in the center of the group of cranes, looking at all this blankly.
Subsequently, these paper cranes gradually converged to Yuzu Rina’s right hand, the body was disassembled, transformed into a sheet of white paper, automatically folded together ……
The outline of a sheathed white paper sword appeared amongst the group of cranes.
Seeing this scene, the yellow-robed oracle envoy’s brows wrinkled slightly.
Sure enough …… The corners of Amamiya Haruhide’s mouth rose in relief, this knife.
As the paper cranes disappeared, a complete white long sword was quietly held in Yuzurina’s hand, a shallow crease remaining on the sheath, spreading like a spider web.
Yuzurina’s black hair fell behind her as she stood in the rain, staring blankly at the blade in her hand, as if she had seen one of the white cranes that Grandmother Crane had folded between her palms with a smile.
This is Yuzuri Kurotetsu left her Banezu sword.
The third of the Banezu Nine Blades, [Thousand Cranes].
”Another Blade Master has appeared?” The yellow-robed oracle messenger frowned at the young Yuzuri Nai, and after a moment, shook his head, “No, she hasn’t become a Blade Master yet, it’s just that this blade is protecting her. ……”
”You’re wrong.”
The corners of Amamiya Haruhide’s mouth rose slightly, “Since this blade came to her side of its own accord, it means that she already possesses the qualifications to become a blade master, she is only one draw away from being a true Banezu Blade Master.”
”But she hasn’t drawn her sword yet, has she?” The yellow-robed oracle ambassador gazed at Yuzurina, “What if, on her own, she doesn’t want to become a Banezu Blade Master?”
Amamiya Haruhide frowned slightly as if he had thought of something.
The yellow-robed oracle shook off Amamiya Haruhide, faced the young Yuzuri Nai, and slowly spoke:
”You are Yuzuri Kurosetsu’s daughter, right?”
”Yes ……”
”How old are you?”
”Thirteen years old.”
”Then do you know what that sword in your hand is?”
Yuzurina was stunned, and after hesitating for a moment, she still shook her head blankly.
”That is the Bane Tsu Sword that represents calamity and curse, every Bane Tsu Sword Master is destined to die a horrible death, there is absolutely no good end.” The yellow-robed oracle messenger said calmly, and in his words, he carried a sense of majesty, “The moment you pull it out and become a Bane Tsu Blade Master, you will be wanted from the [Pure Land], becoming a [Mighty Ghost] level wanted criminal, and hunted down and killed …… by the oracle messenger just like your father.
From now on, you will never be able to live an ordinary and happy life again, you will always be as wretched as a rat hiding in this city, and we, eventually, will find you and kill you.
The Lord God you believe in will never shelter you again, and this country, all of it, will be your enemy.
Do you …… really want to become ‘evil’?”
The yellow-robed oracle messenger paused for a moment and continued, “You are still a child, there is no need to embark on this path of extreme evil, give that knife to me, and you will be able to continue to happily live the life that belongs to you, and the godly adults will continue to shelter you from everything, and you will be able to grow up peacefully and securely …… ”
Yuzurina held [Chizuru] and stood alone in the pouring rain, the rain dampened her messy black hair as she quietly looked at the beautiful long knife in her hand, as if she was thinking about something.
Growing up peacefully? ……
A miserable smile appeared on Yuzurina’s face.
The two words of peace and stability have never appeared in these thirteen years of her life …… Until she came to the Black Sycamore Club, she had only briefly experienced what it was like to feel at home, but now, everything was broken again.
Brother Seven Nights, brother Kogane, brother Amamiya, they are not ordinary people, even Uncle Kyousuke, has become a mysterious person suspected to be his father, they, all of them, are wanted criminals.
As a child growing up in this country, the only thing that has ever given her warmth and made her feel genuinely happy is a family made up of so-called “evil people” ……
The “good people” had left her battered and bruised, but the “evil people” had given her warmth and laughter.
She raised her head and looked behind the yellow-robed oracle, at the hundreds of people kneeling on the ground like ants, her eyes filled with complex colors.
Those people who were lying on the ground like dogs, were they really what “human beings” should be like? Was this what the gods wanted them to become? Was this what the gods wanted them to be like? Was this the result of the gods’ protection?
Do the gods really care if they live or die?
If they did, where were the gods when she was taken by gangsters and beaten? Where were the gods when her home was raided? Where were the …… gods when she and Grandma Crane were forced to live in a shipping container with no food?
Exactly what was good and what was evil, Yuzurina could barely tell the difference anymore.