No Game No Life, Vol. 06 by Yuu Kamiya

Author:Yuu Kamiya [Kamiya, Yuu]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2017-07-25T00:00:00+00:00

“…I knew. Just vaguely, but…”

His words silenced the errors all at once as her thoughts converged on just one question:

“…How…?”

“Hmm… It’s embarrassing to say, but I first sensed something was funny—”

Riku bashfully scratched his head.

“—when we met the first time and wondered, How does she know I’m a virgin?”

“.”

Riku chuckled as Schwi apparently froze.

“Well, there were other things, too—like how you said you’d ‘confirmed’ I had a heart, how you took for granted that my heart was the reason humans had survived in this world, how you were waiting for me somewhere far away from the village, how Game Number One is chess… So, yeah.”

Schwi could only stare as Riku sheepishly smiled as if to say: Your defenses aren’t as good as they look, are they? At a loss for words, her thoughts awash with errors, spinning idly, she nevertheless managed to spit out a question:

“…If that’s the case…then…why…?”

“Hmm… Why? Ha-ha, I don’t know.”

Riku laughed as if genuinely uncertain.

“Maybe because I’d already taken all that into account when I fell in love with you.”

.

“…You’ll forget, the past…?”

“No. You ended up destroying my homeland… That is confirmed as the past.”

His words brought Schwi to the verge of collapsing under the weight of a pain she shouldn’t have been able to experience, but—

“Mmm… Well, I guess I just really am an idiot. ’Cos, see, I see it this way, too.” Whether trying to hide his embarrassment or sincerely self-recriminating, he scratched his head. “If we denied the past—that you destroyed my homeland—we wouldn’t have met, would we?”

“……!”

She felt suffocated. A machine with no respiratory organs.

“What happened, happened. No matter how you try to twist it, it’s not gonna change anything. That’s not what humans are about.”

Riku slowly walked up to her, knelt—

“We gnash our teeth at what happened, cry, wail…then say, ‘next time, next time,’ and move on. But…”

—and touched her cheek with his hand, gently cupping her chin, lifting it up—

“…that’s why…you got interested in me, right?”

—and there he was, smiling like a child. Seeing her frightened expression reflected deep in Riku’s eyes, Schwi herself was shocked. Riku continued quietly, as if to soothe her.

“I’ll never deny the past.”

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“Your past, your present by my side, your future, which I want to share… I love them all.”

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“And your guilt? Just throw it away, whoosh. Unfortunately, humans—well, maybe just I’m an idiot. In any case, we don’t have room to look anywhere but now. Waiting for tomorrow, hoping for next time. Taking the past into account, you know.”

So… Riku took Schwi’s left hand—

“If you’ll be there for me, I’ll be able to want to keep going in this world.”

—gently placed the ring on her finger—

“If you’ll be there for me, I’ll make it through, my heart whole.”

—showed it to her, its stone red, just like her eyes.

“If you’ll be there for me, I’ll never lose my smile again.”

And then, as if somehow vexed—

“So please. If you don’t hate me—”

“I don’t…hate you—! That’s not true, at all—”

—Riku held out his hand to Schwi as she shook her head as if to cut him off, and he made a wish.

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