Hyde and Closer 35

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ACT 35
Samsara (2)

002

Shunpei: G---

Grandpa is...

Alive?!

Are you serious?!

Is this the truth?!!

Grandpa....

Where have you been up until now..!!!

003

Watchman: Yes, and...

That little white lie I told? You know. 'Kill this boy, and you gain the power of Closer the magical king?' …..

I fabricated that rumor and spread it around the world for one reason only.

Handwritten: Sliceslice

Slicesliceslice.

Watchman: To use you...

And force Alyshid Closer to come out of hiding.

Hyde: A decoy?!

So you're coming clean about it,

You're the one who started blabbing his mouth and causing us trouble!

Watchman: Blabbing....huh?

Heheh.

Well I guess in it's own brutish way that's true.

But aren't you forgetting something very important right now?
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Watchman: The basis of magic is 'The power of belief.'

Most important being, 'strong belief in self'

So called Humans,

Sit comfortably in their living rooms and absorb random knowledge that media throws at them. In truth it is the definition of foolishness.

Buying useless health goods, and relying on close bonds,

Fooling each other, and then assuming the name of justice or evil.

By giving a group of magicians something to believe in,

I granted them power, and all I had to do was tell them to kill you....

005

Watchman: So in the end, it's impossible to tell,

whether I truly lied or not....

Shunpei: T—Then,

Tell me! What on earth is so important you'd go this far....

Stop dancing around the issue and tell it to me straight!!

Watchman: It is so I can quench this 'thirst'....

It is something that I truly desire more than anything in the world.

I 'thirst' for one thing....

To take this vexation called humanity and wipe it cleanly off the face of the earth.

006

Shunpei: To kill...

All humans....

Hyde: You should dream ridiculous stuff when you're sleeping.

So you've gathered countless magicians just so you can do something like that?

Watchman: Would the two of you like to hear a story?

You could say that it was a backwater tribe in Africa that first came up with magic.

Since then the knowledge of magic has been handed down for ages. Since there's not much you can do, why not humor me?

{Once upon a time, in a mountain range in Africa}

{People lived in a small village.}

007

{That year disaster had struck the crops as the rain season never came.}

{The village soon found themselves unable to feed themselves.}

{One day a traveling salesman appeared there.}

{The salesman had been detoured since the route he usually took has been destroyed by a landslide.}

{He happened upon the village by chance.}

{The villagers told them about their plight, and he took pity upon them.}

{Because he wouldn't be able to make it to his regular customer,}

{He decided to give them all that he had, which was a single chicken.}

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{The villagers just happened to have a barn, where they decided to keep their precious and rare food supply.}

{So they placed the chicken under lock and key.}

{However, many years had deteriorated the door to the barn,}

{And the chicken was able to leave.}

{The villagers quickly went looking for the chicken once they realized what had happened.}

{That day by chance,}

{Clouds covered a night sky.}

{The chicken fled deep into the forest.}

{Unfortunately for the poor bird, the beasts in the jungle,}
{Were more than a match for the small flightless creature.}

{However the chicken was saved by a human hunter by coincidence.}

{The chicken fled again, and rested a while,}

{Underneath tree branches that just happened to be there.}

{The chicken managed to successfully live a while,}

{And walked deeper into the jungle.}

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{It was there that by chance,}

{A little girl found the chicken.}

{The girl found a place that she could run to,}

{Away from the people and things that she hated.}

{That day the girl by coincidence late in the morning.}

{She had forgotten to draw the water,}

{By coincidence, her father found out about her slip up,}

{And he scolded her for not following through on her responsibility.}

{She left and found the chicken, but it was too late.}

{It had lived a long time, but fatigue claimed it's life. In the end although it managed to stay away from being eaten, It's own lack of strength had did it in.}

{With the last of it's strength the chicken laid a single egg.}

010

{The girl's village wasn't prosperous at all.}

{She had thought to herself that she would eat the egg, but...}

{That day as much as possible she....}

Girl: You know...

I have something that's really bothering me this morning....

But I don't feel so bad anymore....do you know why that is?

That's because I'm gonna take all of these bad feelings,

and place them into you!

But that's not it...I'll put painful feelings in too!

And those feelings will swirl and grow within you,

And one day those terrible feelings will hatch out. So you'll be my good luck charm!

(Handwritten- Teehee!)

{The little girl was still at an age where she could say such things and be serious about them,}

{And so through this minor exchange she did truly feel better.}

011

{Coincidentally, unknown to even her, the little girl....}

{Possessed the ability to use 'magic.'-------}

012

{Her magic allowed her words to become reality.}

{She had inadvertently created the first 'device',}

{Not only that, but it remained active...absorbing hate, jealousy, and grudges. In essense all of the evil mankind held in it's hearts.}

{Countless years flowed by,}

{And coincidentally, no one found the egg.}

{So even now it exists, continuing to absorb.....}

Watchman: Yes everything is 'coincidental'....

But what if something like that were truly to exist?

By now it would be a power that could very well rip the planet asunder,

The ultimate 'device'.

013

Shunpei: W—what....

What's the reason for that story?!

You don't mean...

Watchman: And now the pieces fall together huh....

Let me get to the conclusion.

This story,

Is not fiction but fact.

The egg truly does exist.

014

Watchman: Starting six years ago...

I have exhausted myself in search for that egg.

At long last I located it on Africa's sacred mountain Kilimanjaro.

That egg has been incubating this world's ill will, all before our very eyes.

If I could get it in my possession,

???: Slicesliceslice....

Watchman: Then at long last I could quench this thirst of mine.

I was confident that I would at long last get what I wanted.....

{Africa 6 years ago.}

Watchman: Everything was set.

But then he appeared,

And his existence has been a thorn in my side....

015

Alyshid: It's this....?!

All of this magic hanging in the air,

It's more than I thought....better investigate...
No way...

Those rumors...

They're true...?!

If this thing should get out,

It would bring with it the end of the world..!!

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Watchman: The name of the oldest 'device' is...

Resentment.