Chapter 15: Remember The Ending (8)

His heartbeat is a mess!

He keeps vomiting blood…

His body temperature keeps going up and down!

“Damn, I can’t even tell what’s going on, so I can’t give him any medicine…”

“I’m going to take him to the operating room first!”

Ugh, be quiet.

He wanted to jump up and say it was nothing, but right now, he was overwhelmed just trying to control the despair flowing into his body.

‘The problem was that I ate the despair in a hurry because the Emerald went out of the hospital room…’

He should’ve waited a little longer and eaten, but he got excited and drank it all in one gulp as soon as it disappeared from his sight, and that was the cause of his trouble.

Who would’ve known?

That Emerald was waiting right in front of the hospital room door!!…

He definitely did it on purpose.

No matter how much I think about it, he did it on purpose, that guy.

If that weren’t the case, there was no way he would’ve let out so much hope energy the moment he drank Tamako’s despair.

How could he’d spread hope energy while his despair circuit was wide open?

Are you crazy about killing monsters?

What the?

“Huh, keuhk, keuhk.”

But all of this was a step back for the sake of advancing.

See, when you vomit blood and pretend to be sick, all that despair energy just drains out, right?

It was quite unexpected that Emerald despaired while watching me vomit blood.

‘If I vomit blood once a day like this, will my worries about despair end…”

I thought Tamako, who was deep in sleep, would be the only one who had a fountain of despair, but I think I should add ‘Emerald who saw me vomit blood.

Maybe she’s afraid of blood or something.

Seeing Apocalypse, her archenemy, despair as soon as he vomited blood, it seemed like she was afraid of blood.

‘In the original, there was no particular description of her being afraid of blood…

Maybe it just happened out of nowhere.

If you see humans getting torn apart and magical girls getting their limbs torn apart all day long, anyone would develop a fear of blood.

“…Vital signs are returning to normal.”

“…Can I consider this normal?”

“Since these were the numbers when you first had your physical exam, I guess this is normal…”

Ah, what a pity.

It felt like Despair Fever Time, but it was so good.

Thinking that I could open my eyes, I slowly raised my eyelids, and the doctors were all talking about something with serious expressions.

“Excuse me.”

“Whoa!? I, I’m scared…”

“…Didn’t you lose consciousness? Huh?”

It was like seeing a dead body rise up.

The sound of the pounding heart was so clear that I couldn’t help but laugh inside.

A dying person can suddenly wake up, so why are you so surprised?…

T, t, be careful!”

“Is it okay if I don’t take you to the hospital room?”

“I don’t know. Since you’re walking well, I’ll let you go.

T, it’s scary.

What if you get bitten and it gets infected?”

I can hear everything behind you.

How dare you treat me like a zombie, so rudely.

This isn’t a zombie, this is a monster, a monster!

‘By the way, you look terrible.’

Her clothes were a complete mess, probably because she had vomited blood.

She didn’t have any spare clothes, so if she kept going like this, she would have no choice but to wear a patient gown.

“More than that, all eyes are on her.

A girl covered in blood walking out of the emergency room…

Anyone would be terrified.

What can I do?

I wanted to go back to my hospital room and take a nap, but if I kept wandering around like this, rumors might spread throughout the hospital.

I’m going to be stuck here for a while, so I can’t let such strange rumors spread, right?”

I-Is it really okay for me to go back alone?”

“It’s okay. I only vomited a little blood.”

“…It doesn’t seem like I vomited a little.”

I went back to the emergency room and borrowed a patient gown from the doctors who were terrified at seeing me reappear.

I could have borrowed it from a nurse or something outside, but, well, I just wanted to see the reaction of her looking at me and getting dizzy again.

The reason being… it was just fun.

‘Akari, Akari! Are you okay!? Akari!’

“Don’t make a fuss over a little bit of blood.”

Asl was walking back to the hospital room, wearing a hospital gown with sleeves hanging down and slippers, Emerald’s expression came to my mind.

Just looking at her face, I felt like she was dying, even though she was my close friend.

In fact, it was the complete opposite.

“Wh, where is there no fresh despair…

I was so hungry because I had just vomited out all the despair I had filled up because of the hope of the emerald.

This world was so cruel to a newborn like me.

How could a mother be a doctor?

Where in the world would there be a parent who wouldn’t even feed their baby and would even order them to kill?

Culp -I’m desperate, I’m desperate…

Is this how children who have been abandoned by their parents and are left on the streets feel?

I felt so depressed that I wanted to cry.

There were even a lot of vicious magical girls in this world.

If at my fill of despair, they would surely appear randomly and attack me in a group.

Does this monster even know what being full means?

I thought that this was something that could be put up as a public service announcement on the monster education channel.

Ah, if I had known this would happen, I should have majored in science.

If I had, I could have made a despair extractor using magical girls as materials like the doctor.

No, what am I thinking?

I was so hungry that I wasn’t in my right mind.

“Akari”

“Hello, Midori.”

“Are you, uh, okay?”

“Probably”

I thought she wouldn’t be here anymore.

Emerald, who was sitting on the chair in front of the hospital room, came over to me with quick steps as soon as she saw me.

“More than that, you’re too close.”

“Oh, uh, I’m sorry.”

“I’m tired, but can I go in and sleep for today?”

As soon as she saw me return, she was in this state again.

The hopeful energy that pierced every nerve made her stomach churn.

It was fortunate that her despair circuit was closed at the moment, because if she had opened it like before, she might have vomited blood again.

After all, she had changed her clothes, and she absolutely did not want them to get dirty again.

“Akan”

“Yes, go ahead”

“I’m sorry for being so cold to you.

I, um, I think I did it unconsciously because you resembled someone I disliked so much.”

“An apology all of a sudden?

What kind of change of heart did you have?”

I tilted my head as several question marks floated above my head.

What is Emerald sorry about?

This is Apocalypse after all.

She was grateful that he didn’t rush in to grab her by the throat.

“It’s okay. I think it’s natural.”

“A”

“See you tomorrow, Midori.”

She smiled and answered, her expression quite impressive.

Knock knock

“Whew…”

Surely he won’t follow her in again or anything.

How nice it would be if she just left him alone.

For the time being, she was fully planning to enjoy her leisurely fire monster life while licking Tamako’s despair.

Seeing her so sorry made her think she wouldn’t bother him for a while.

Hmm, I’ll just close my eyes for a bit.

I don’t know if monsters sleep, but—I thought that, and as soon as I laid down on the bed, sleep came over me.

Oh, but sleep is coming.

She slowly let her eyes close and exhaled slowly.

Now that I think about it, this is the first time I’ve slept since I was born.

With that thought, she fell asleep as if she had fainted.

Whether today’s events had left a lasting impression on me, I had a dream where I piled up the despair of magical girls and ate them to my heart’s content.

A dark room where no one seemed to come or go.

It started to move at the fragrant smell waiting in from afar.

A delicious scent that was on a different level from the ordinary despair that was spreading around.

The despair of magical girls that ordinary monsters would never be able to taste.

Grumble, groan—

The black, amorphous thing stuck to the floor began to writhe and slowly expand in size.

I have to eat it.

That thing is mine.

A single black tentacle extended from the back of the thing with the body of a canine and attached itself to the outer wall of the building.

Gmmmm—

Squeak… Squeak—

I moved while keeping my voice low so as not to be noticed by anyone, and the moment I finally arrived at the source of despair.

As if the cold wind of midwinter was passing through a needle hole, it naturally inserted its body through the gap in the window.

Swish, swish—

“No, no… Please, spare me, y… huk… That’s it.

Sprinkling delicious despair in all directions.

My prey.

It’ll eat them all up.

Gemmm…

The mouth that was the size of a human opened wide and began to grow large enough to swallow a person.

Large enough to swallow the magical girl in front of it in one bite.

Inside the mouth that had grown so large that it seemed as if it could swallow any light, there were teeth that looked like blades made of ground obsidian closely packed together.

G-How full would I be if I ate this?

Just imagining it made my appetite surge, and black liquid dripped from its mouth.

Swallow.

Swallow.

This defenceless, sleeping prey—

“Hey”

Gemm? – couldn’t swallow it.

I looked back.

There was a human there.

A human who felt neither hope nor despair.

No, that was not a human.

That was definitely…

“Do not outbid the despair I bid on.”

Its vision was dyed red.

A crimson ring was spinning fiercely above the head of the human-shaped monster.

It’s dangerous.

We must run away.

An overwhelming presence that made the despair of a magical girl feel like something trivial.

Growl…

Feeling a threat to its life, it hurriedly moved its body.

No, it was the moment it tried to move.

Crunch.

With a dull sound, its body collapsed.

It was the end of a worthless existence that preyed on despair.