NOVEL NEXT Chapter 107
Swoosh
The summer breeze gently swayed the stalks of lavender flowers blooming beautifully.
As the lavender waves rolled over the hundreds of meters of wall, a strong fragrance wafted through the air.
Wisteria Garden.
The wisteria was a climbing plant and toxic, so it could only be raised in a special enclosure, but Sumire loved the quiet wisteria garden tucked away in a corner.
Swoosh
The gentle breeze carried the floral scent that tickled her nose.
She could escape the etiquette classes and culture lessons she had to receive as a lady of the Fujimoto family and feel free as a 9-year-old girl.
“Sumire Onee-chan!!”
“Anna.”
Tap, tap, tap
Fujimoto Anna approached with a bouncy step in her elegant kimono.
Sumire was happy to see her only cousin, Anna.
Excluding her late mother and grandmother, Anna was the only female family member she was close to, and the pure cousin, who was only a year younger, was just too cute.
Anna, in her narrow kimono, was so skillful in her steps that she quickly closed the distance from the entrance of the garden to where Sumire was walking.
Sumire gently tidied Anna’s disheveled hair with her tiny hands.
“Did Uncle come to visit?”
“Yes!”
“…A lady shouldn’t jump around like that.”
“Yes!”
Oh dear.
Anna hopped around like a rabbit, totally ignoring her sister’s words, which was very unladylike behavior for the girl in the garden.
Despite the laughter escaping her, Sumire quietly watched from behind to ensure Anna wouldn’t fall.
‘Uncle wanted Anna to grow up freely.’
As the head of the Fujimoto family focused only on their legacy and prosperity, their father did not tolerate actions unbecoming of the family’s status.
The uncle, on the other hand, believed that the Fujimoto family was just one clan among many and advocated for coexistence, enjoying a freer life.
The two brothers, who were just a year apart like Sumire and Anna, had extremely different ideologies, yet their relationship was good because the uncle quickly yielded his inheritance rights to his elder brother.
“Onee-chan! Onee-chan!”
“Yes?”
“Mom said we’re going on a trip to Hawaii together! Let’s go! What color do you like for a swimsuit? Red? Bikini?”
“Anna, that’s too inappropriate a color.”
Unexpected announcement
Sumire couldn’t help but laugh at Anna’s innocent decision to include her without hesitation in the family trip, as it showed how much she considered her as family.
“Pfft.”
“Ah~ why! Onee-chan! Let’s go!”
“Puhuhu, be quiet in the garden, Anna.”
“Hehe!”
“And I have too many classes to attend, so I can’t go. I need to become the perfect lady to be the guardian of the Fujimoto family.”
“Guardian? Why should you do that, Onee-chan?”
“Well… to make sure you can live comfortably like you do now?”
“Wow! Thank you!”
“Puhuhu, what’s that supposed to mean.”
The two sisters held hands and strolled through the garden, chatting joyfully.
So many cherished memories.
“Onee-chan, why do we grow so many lavender trees?”
“They symbolize the Fujimoto family because they can bloom even in barren places and produce delicious honey.”
“Barren, barren?”
“Places where flowers struggle to grow.”
“Ah-ha!”
Tap, tap, tap Anna dashed over and plucked a wisteria bloom to tap on Sumire’s shoulder.
Looks like she’s seen it in a cartoon or something.
Kneeling before her with a solemn expression like in a medieval knight’s ceremony, did she even realize?
If someone spotted the heir of the Fujimoto family kneeling like this, it would surely cause a commotion.
“I hereby appoint you, Onee-chan, as the guardian of the Fujimoto family!”
“Appoint.”
“…I appoint!”
“Yes, I will protect Anna and all my precious things forever.”
“Hehe.”
“Puhuhu.”
Anna looked at Sumire and smiled widely.
Stab
Anna repeatedly stabbed a dagger into Sumire’s chest.
“Ahhhhh!!”
“Ha ha, Onee-chan. Nice to see you!”
Grah!
Sumire gazed at Anna, who had tackled her and was sharpening the dagger into her belly after taking down all her allies.
She had approached the site where the final gravestone had been erected—the Fujimoto building—with a mix of hope and dread.
Returning to the site of the Fujimoto building after several months, Sumire shivered.
Her sister’s face looked too mature compared to the memories, framed against the red sky.
Yet, the innocent face of her sister from that time still lingered.
Seeing her sister smiling as she coldly killed people sent chills down her spine, reminiscent of their father’s cold indifference towards death.
Anna…
Sumire forgot even the pain from her bleeding hands and belly as darkness enveloped her.
“Anna…!”
“Yes! Nice to see you!”
“Why?!”
Pain
In the agony that felt like being skewered by a fiery skewer, Sumire howled desperately. Anna, watching her from the sidelines, widened her blood-red eyes in surprise.
“Why are you doing this?!”
“Huh? Wow, I didn’t expect you to get so angry, Onee-chan! What a surprise. I thought you were just like Uncle, all wooden and cold.”
“Why… why…”
“Why? Well, because of that.”
The horrifically collapsed building.
Fujimoto headquarters.
Thousands of sharp blades scattered on the ground.
Amid the rubble soaked in blood, Anna smiled as she completely removed her leather mask, revealing a girl’s face that resembled Sumire’s with dark hair flowing down.
“I have returned.”
With her black boots, she kicked the head of Fujimoto Eiji.
Around her neck hung the fingers of those bearing the Fujimoto name, and blood from the unfortunate merging flowed like a river beneath her.
“To take [Revenge].”
“Why… why are the innocent involved?!”
“Who cares about that? That’s ridiculous.”
“Ridiculous? Killing people…?”
“Yes! You have no right to say that!”
Because she was the eldest daughter of Fujimoto.
The heir of a blood-soaked family.
Anna caressed Sumire’s face, slowly twisting the dagger stuck in her belly.
“Hehehe…”
“Ahhhhh!!”
Splat
Blood spurted forth from the wound, staining Anna’s face where a pale scar lay.
Sumire felt a surge of dread as Anna’s face, becoming more drenched in blood, looked like a flush of ecstasy.
Dark, blood-red energy flickered violently within Anna’s crimson eyes.
“My beloved sister.”
Grah!
Stab
A thin skewer-like knife pierced Sumire’s arm, blood trickling down.
It was disgusting just to look at the greasy skewer, seemingly used to stab countless people.
“My sister who loved me.”
“Ahhh!!”
Stab
A jagged knife plunged into Sumire’s white leg, spewing blood like a fountain.
The pain ripped through her mind, intensifying her agony to the point of whiteness.
“This is the final revenge.”
“Ugh…!”
“So perfect. Definitely, this stuck-up old man was just a weak human…”
Anna spoke ecstatically, clutching her face with her gloved hands as she faced the ominous blood-red sky.
“…I wanted to be the one to kill my beautiful and perfect sister last. I wanted to smash everything Uncle cherished and do it last.”
“Huaaah…”
“Did you know I’ve dreamed of this moment for seven years?”
“…”
“Did you think I wouldn’t notice that old man cherishing only you?”
“…”
“Now I’ll really kill you. Just like our mom and dad, shamelessly sticking their tongues out!”
Crack
“Ugh…!”
The tightening of her throat.
The slickness of Anna’s leather gloves felt both slippery and warm, perhaps due to all the blood.
“How disappointing. I can only see this for a few minutes.”
“Cough…”
“Puhuhu, I’ll take Onee-chan’s glass star and corpse with me, so don’t dream of coming back to life.”
Let’s wander together in hell forever, Onee-chan.
After all, this world is destined for destruction.
‘Anna…’
As her consciousness dimmed, Sumire silently apologized to the girl she had followed all this time. She also apologized to everyone who put their trust in her, the council, and Kaede.
‘I’m sorry…’
“Not like that!!”
Tat tat tat tat tat tat tat!!
A hail of machine gun fire slicing through the darkness made Anna turn around. There stood a mixed-race girl in an aviation jumper, rushing forward and panting as she unfolded her machine gun.
“What the heck are you? You’ve been decapitated, and you’re back alive already?”
“No.”
Lena pointed to her neck with her thumb.
The skin appeared slightly misaligned.
It seemed like someone forced her head back on with healing magic, just as Lena had said.
“Koha-ne stuck it on before I completely died.”
“Completely insane.”
“Am I crazier than you?”
Boom!
An armored machine dropped down from the silver ship floating in the sky.
[It’s a rapid resurrection!! Let go of the boss!!]
Rumble—
A fluorescent orange bike rushed in from afar.
“B- Boss!! It’s dangerous!!”
When Anna narrowed her eyes at the girls who had returned from death and looked back at Sumire.
“Ninjutsu, substitution jutsu.”
Instead of Sumire, a girl wearing a black sailor uniform and a dark green muffler lay there.
“Damn it! Mumei? I killed everyone!!”
“I am no longer Mumei.”
“Stop talking nonsense and die!!”
Thud!
Anna’s blade struck not soft girl flesh but a solid log instead.
The girl wrapped in dark green mist vanished while declaring from afar, supporting Sumire.
“I am the [Revenge] Magical Girl, the ugly magical girl who envies freedom. Now I see you seem quite free yourself, so I’m feeling envious.”
“What did you just say?”
Hearing the absurd words, Anna frowned, but Kaede didn’t care at all.
It was said to infuriate her from the start.
“Ka…ede, thank you.”
“Not at all, Miss.”
Anna didn’t appreciate her minions rushing in to disturb her revenge.
[Revenge] Magical Girl Unique Skill
Mountain of corpses, sea of blood
Revenge is fulfilled only through death.
I desire the death of all who obstruct that.
Shwaaa—!!
With Anna enhanced as a guardian, blood red energy rose from the land where she stood, transforming into a massive river.
“I’ll make you all die.”