Twisted Fate

Nagisa paled his face by the sudden remarks from Kuro. He didn't know, a gentle person like Kuro, he who was so calm, cute and considerate of other people from before, can suddenly turn this scary.

Out of fear, Nagisa nodded his head and carried Matsuri, before rushing toward his house.

Meanwhile, Black wasn't there to confirm. All there was a pitch black entity, rushing at high speed that human's eyes will have a hard time following.

Due to the darkness coating around him, it was hard to make clear of whether the person carrying the heavily injured lady was an children or an adult.

Nor could peoples notices how much pain the entity was in, both mentally and physically.

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The black entity rushed toward his room, no, toward the room where he is in.

"Heal her." Sound came out from within the darkness.

Maou was 'troubled.' "Oi, oi. Even though I can stop time, it's hard to revive a person who's already died."

Kuro's heart was further stabbed upon hearing the word 'dead' "So it's not impossible, right?"

"Revive her."

"Resurrect her."

"Bring her back."

"Restore her." Multiple sounds came from the darkness. Hurry, impatience, sadness, regret, but most importantly, self-hatred.

"Despite the hints you gave me, I failed to save her. Give me a chance to repent this."

Maou shrugged as he sighed. "Fine. But I can't do it. We need to find that person."

"Whatever. Make it quick."

Maou looked away mockingly. "Fine, fine."

Meanwhile, Maou thought to himself. 'What a guy, even with his cool lost, he's deeply observing me to keep confirm of my face, or rather, emotion. Keeping the fact that I can kill him anytime, if he noticed that I am about to lose my temper, he'll probably stop there.'

Black entered the cue which Maou just summoned, while thinking to himself deeply.

'Maou warned me so that I hurried toward where they were in. Combining that and the time we spent discussing, a pretty long time has passed since Maou warned me, indicating either that the attack was from a long distances, or that someone is aiming for her."

"If it was the latter; someone is targeting her, he had many chances to kill Hanabi and I won't be able to react to it. But the attack never came until I was about to leave. Which means that it was not that someone's targeting her, but an attack from long distances."

"For example, the criminal have launched his attack the moment Maou warned me, and the long delay in it could become another proof that it was an attack from really long distances, maybe a few countries apart."

"Distance: either few building apart or few country apart if being unrealistic."

"If few country apart; another question will be born, for what?"

"For what reasons killing someone from really long distance will benefit you? None: That's why, it's most likely that someone entrusted the criminal to kill Hanabi."

"How? Knowing this can rapidly reduces the size of suspicion put on someone in this world. Power enough to detect the target despite the distances. Power enough to control the deadly forces within the cloud-like javelin, and accurately hit the target."

"That'd be: Maou, Mythical Creatures or the Seven Deadly Sins, some powerful creature judging from the knowledges available within me."

"Maou being in the suspicion is nonsense, as there's no reason to point out that 'he's going to kill someone so go there and look at it carefully.' But he is also one of suspect as 5,000 years of living could possibly caused him to have no feeling from taking a life. Moreover, his personality is playful at essences so it isn't weird for him to mess with me.

"In the case he is the person who killed Hanabi, this would be pain in ass, as I have to become stronger than the strongest person in the Virturan."

"Cloud, Javelin. Javelin designed to pierces heart, protect itself, reduces the wind resistances."

"Someone with the knowledges about weapons."

"Cloud, water vapor, condensation, sky. Someone who possesses the power to control the water, and air. Someone who possesses the mana capacity to control the cloud-like javelin, as well, keeps it existences from perishing despite the speed it's traveling."

"Maou, Mythical Creature with either water or air elements. Seven Deadly Sins with either water or air elements. Large mana capacity "

"With the suspicion put on them—then who told that criminal to kill Hanabi."

"The person who was near Hanabi, or tried to kill her 'even if it's through accident.'"

"Me, Nagisa, Matsuri, that truck guy, and that red-haired kid."

"Nagisa, possible as he suddenly appeared out of nothing, even if that's his character but the chances is low. Matsuri, basically impossible as who would try to kill their parent? Besides, her emotion wasn't fake"

"That truck guy? Maybe but low. That red-haired kid? Currently the most suspicious person."

"First of all making an owe of either Mythical Creatures or Seven Deadly Sins is incredibly hard. So person like Nagisa with high-background seems more trustable than kid with unknown background."

"Another part that feels off, why wait until the criminal is in really far distances? Or he had no choice but to wait until that person is in far place? This planet which is said as big as sun, even if person traveled at Koro-sensei which is apparently mach 20, it would still at least take 36 hours if you want to get to other sides of Virturan, you're in right now."

"Unless you use spatial magic and make some portal."

"Wait a minute, what if the criminal was but a backup plan, and in truth, he wanted to kill Hanabi without dirtying his hand? He failed, so and his backup came right in time. This is more weirder. Because even if it's Maou, unless he want it, he can't see what people is doing in the moon."

"Basically, if the person is not in your mind in first place, you won't be able to see it unless that very person appear in front you and enter your brain."

"I don't see the reason to delay the plan and wait for…?"

"What if…? Just what if. The person have the ability to see the future or even control it."

"That'd be satisfies the first condition: make an owe from strong creatures. Telling an information from future so that the strong creatures will benefit from you."

"The perfect plan which 'coincidence' continues one after another. The guards usually patrolling isn't there. The criminal has finished his/her own thing. The truck was more dozy than usual."

"And finally the trigger: one kid flying out of road, in calculation that Hanabi will push him off and save her. If I wasn't there, Hanabi would 100% died."

"And I was there, so Hanabi didn't die, and 'coincidentally,' the criminal just finished his/her own thing and checked out whether the person he/she told to kill is still alive or not."

"The victim was alive, so she attempted to kill Hanabi, which there was some delay because how far they were."

"Wait, I am missing Matsuri. If keeping her alive was one of conditions, then…"

Kuro turned to Maou who was quietly listening to his deduction, his mouth open out of amaze. "Maou, contact Nagisa and asks him if there's something in Matsuri."

"Okay." Maou opened the portal which opened and showed the faces of Nagisa, and Matsuri, lying down in the bed.

Video call? That's rather convenient. It's better seeing with my eyes rather than listening to words. "Nagisa, remove her clothes."

"Hu-huh? Kuu-kun…? What is this…?" Nagisa was puzzled at the sudden screen, and surprised, while also slightly disgusted at Black.

"Hurry up and do as I say, dumbass. Do you want to let the mastermind escape?" Black got pissed at how slow Nagisa was. He had no time doing drama.

"H, hih…" Nagisa got scared due to the infinity coldness within Black's tone and closed his eyes before lifting up the shirts covering the fainted Matsuri's skin.

Afterward, her skin, the oval, and undeveloped breasts was revealed. "Found it."

Kuro stared at the middle of her chest which a mark was written, glowing in yellow light. "What is it?"

Maou turned off the video call as he judged that Kuro no longer needs it. "Artifact. Not telling you more info than this!"

Meanwhile, Maou swore to himself that he will never bring up a detective game to Kuro if he ever thought of one.

"Whatever. This artifact may needs an specific conditions to finally active. And that's why they didn't kill her. Maybe that's the reason why the cloud-like javelin was made to be single-target."

"For a person to knows this, info not written even in Zhang Xuan's library's books, he could be either some sage who knows somethong no ordinary person could ever know of, or reincarnator from the future who knows any event from the future."

"That person's next goal will be: a tool to take out the artifact inside Matsuri's body. Let's say, until that, Matsuri is safe for now."

"It's the time manipulator we'e talking about. Their ambition is pain in ass as fuck."

"Why'd you think so?" Maou interrupted him from sides.

"What reason would you manipulate time for and return to the past, becoming a children? It can be many reasons, but in this type of world, it's very likely for power. He wanted to become the most powerful person but he had many ineffective training since his child so he ruined his potential."

"So he returned back to child, thought of the quickest and strongest way. If things got worde, he may even become stronger than you."

"In worse case, that artifact Matsuri contains may have a power to turn you into a literal god… wait, aren't you stronger than god? So… it's possible that the artifact she contains can have the power to turn you more stronger than gods."

"If that's the case, there's no way that an artifact can just give you power above the god without side-effects or something. So, his goal after taking Matsuri's artifact should be, nullifying the artifact's side effects."

"If there's a problem, there would be a solution. If you become as ambitious as reincarnator, you won't be satisfied with 'reducing the side effects.' You can only be satisfied after the side-effects was nullified."

"This is the same case if the artifact Matsuri contains was an 'duration-type' he will definitely finds a way to make the effects lasts forever."

"This is rather pain. Even if he is a child right now, he is still a reincarnated person. The experiences for living an lifetime will not disappears."

"…I̴̧̛̫̳̜̯̻̒͐̾̆̓̀͌̅͒͜ ̵͚̗̺̀ń̵̡̛͖̖͖̮͕͓́͐̊̑e̸̘̥̰̳̹̥̔̏ę̶͇͍͈̜̦̜̟̌͒̀͑͝d̶̮̱̦͔̙͐ ̵̢̢̰̬̻̯̬̥̌͜p̶̨̯̭̦͎̩͎̈́̓̇͂̀́͗̇̅͠õ̵̫͇̗̮̒̈́͊ẅ̴͓̠̥̤̝̹̿̈́̽̈́̾͘͜e̷͚͕͛̓͐̌̽̊̅̔͒ȑ̸͓̠̈̚."

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