Gokukoku no Brynhildr 19

Reserved for Trinity BAKumA. Do not use without my permission.

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Chapter 19: The One Left Behind
Kotori: Are you alright?
Neko: Yeah.
Kotori: Murakami-san and Kikako-san are on the other side over there.
Neko: Got it.

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Neko: Kikako-chan...
Ryouta: All this time...
Ryouta: She wouldn't answer a single question.
Ryouta: Where...
Ryouta: Did you come from?

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Ryouta: Just where is the research lab?
Ryouta: What's the name of the lab?
Kikako: ...
Neko: Rather than not answering...
Neko: I think she just doesn't know...
Kazumi: What are you doing!?
Kazumi: People are already starting to gather!!
Kazumi: The police are coming too!
Kazumi: Hurry and get away from there!!
Neko: What are we going to do with Kikako-chan?
Ryouta: Nothing.
Ryouta: She wouldn't tell us anything.
Ryouta: And I don't think she would join us.
Ryouta: Besides, I don't feel like becoming friends with a murder.

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Ryouta: Even so, it's not like we can just push the button to kill her.
Ryouta: The only thing we can do is to leave here.
Ryouta: By the way, where is Kotori?
Neko: Huh?
Neko: She told me to go ahead...
Ryouta: ...
Ryouta: This is bad...
Kotori has run out of medicine...
Neko: What!?
Kotori: I no longer want to...
Kotori: Extend my own life at the expense of someone else's.
Ryouta: She...
Ryouta: Is planning to die somewhere.
Ryouta: We're going to look for Kotori!!

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Guy: Even though you're an AA+...
Guy: What a sorry sight.
Guy: But since you obtained the required number of Harnessed's, we'll let it go this time.
Guy: Although there will hearings...
Guy: And haaaarsh punishments waiting for you.
Kikako: ...

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Phewww
Phewww

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Phewww
Phewww
It's been 30 hours...
Since I took the last medicine...
I wonder how many minutes I have left to live...
In here...
I can die without anyone finding me...
Chie-chan...
I haven't...
Forgotten the promise...

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Ryouta: Kotori!!
Ryouta: Neko!!
Ryouta: She's here!!
Kotori: How did you know...
Ryouta: Isn't it obvious!?
Ryouta: You wrote the address here in your club application.
Kotori: ...
Kotori: I was careless...
Ryouta: Your carelessness should have limits.
Neko: Kotori-chan!!

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Ryouta: Will we make it if we give her the medicine now?
Neko: Probably...
Neko: It's fine since her limbs are still attached...
Ryouta: ...
Box: Just what kind of horrors...
Box: Have all of them experienced until now...?
Ryouta: Kotori, take the medicine.
Kotori: ...I don't need it.
Ryouta: Hurry and take it!!
Ryouta: Or else it'll be too late!!
Kotori: I don't...
Kotori: Want to take anyone else's medicine anymore.
Ryouta: ...What the heck!?
Ryouta: Why do all magic users want to die so badly!?
Box: No...
Box: Then there are those like Kazumi, so I guess it depends on the individual...

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Kotori: This...
Is Chie-chan's room.
Ryouta: Huh?
Kotori: The blood in this room...
Kotori: Belonged to Chie-chan.
Ryouta: Chie-chan?
Ryouta: Oh yeah...
You mentioned that she died for not being able to ration the medicine...
Kotori: That...
Kotori: Was a lie.
Ryouta: ...
Kotori: Today...
Kotori: Is my,
Kotori: Birthday...
Kotori: But I only had medicine to last 3 days a week ago...
Kotori: I was short 4 days in order to live until my birthday today.

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Kotori: Chie-chan's birthday is a week after mine...
Kotori: But since there was no way for both of us to make it to our birthdays...
Kotori: I was to live on for the both of us,
Kotori: Because my birthday came first.
Box: ...
Box: That reminds me, I've heard of something before...
Box: The death rate during one week before one's birthday,
Box: Is far less than that of the week after the birthday...
Box: When one faces death due to illness...
Box: It is common to have living until the birthday as a goal...
Kotori: But I refused.
Kotori: Since I did not want to celebrate my birthday by taking away from Chie-chan's life...
Ryouta: ...
Ryouta: Then...

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Kotori: Chie-chan committed suicide.
Kotori: And left me...
Kotori: Medicine and a birthday present.
Chie: Just use my medicine...
Chie: So you can live to your birthday and become 16.
Kotori: Chie-chan stopped taking the medicine.
Kotori: When I noticed, it was already too late.
Text: Chie-chan...

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Kotori: Chie-chan!
Why...!?
Chie: Taking 2, 3 days away from my life...
Chie: Is a small price to pay for you to become an adult.
Chie: When you become 16...
Chie: You can even get married if you want, you know...?
TN: The legal age to get married for girls in Japan is 16.
Chie: But with no medicine, it'll only be one day.
Kotori: Chie-chan...
Kotori: !?
Kotori: Chie-chan!!
Chie: Please...
Chie: Promise me...one thing...

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Chie: When you are feeling sad...
Chie: Phewww
Chie: Phewww
Chie: Smile, even if you have to force yourself...
Chie: If you cry when it gets painful...
Chie: It will only get more and more painful...
Kotori: Chie-chan...
Chie: And one more thing...
I have no time left, so I'll say it now...
Chie: Happy...
Chie: Birthday...
Kotori: I...have promised Chie-chan.
To smile even when I'm sad...
Box: So it's as I thought...
That's why it was so puzzling...
Box: In Kana's foresight, we must have been killed by Kikako.
But because Kotori was smiling nearby...
Box: Kana mistook it as Kotori being the murderer.

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Kotori: I've...always wanted to try going to a school.
Kotori: Because Chie-chan knew about it...
She changed some data and arranged to have me transfer in...
Kotori: That was her birthday present to me.
Thanks to that, I got to go to school, and even an astronomical observation...
Kotori: But...
I've been feeling guilty this whole time...
Kotori: To have lived on...by taking Chie-chan's life...
Kotori: That's why...
Kotori: I no longer want to live on by taking someone else's medicine and shortening that person's lifespan...
Kotori: Besides, my magic is really useless...
Kotori: Being alive is just a waste of medicine...
Ryouta: Stop fooling around.
As if I'll let you die.
Kotori: Huh?

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Ryouta: If you die, we will no longer have a new member in the astronomy club.
Without any first-years, the club will have to be abolished next year.
Ryouta: I don't want that to happen.
Kotori: ...
Ryouta: And besides, you won't be shortening anyone's life by taking it.
Ryouta: We will definitely get more medicine before everything gets used up.
Ryouta: So there's no need for you to worry about anyone's life.
Neko: ...
Neko: Kotori-chan, your magic is not useless.
Neko: We wouldn't have won without you today.
Ryouta(thought): ...Although we wouldn't have had to fight if Kotori didn't shown up...
Neko: And most importantly...

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Neko: Don't you want to say happy birthday to Chie-chan next week?
Ryouta: Just hurry and take it.
Ryouta: Or we'll force it down.
Kotori: ...
Kotori: I will...
Kotori: Be taking the medicine...
Ryouta: And there's...
Ryouta: One more thing we want to say to you.

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Ryouta: Happy birthday.
Text: Living on according to her friend's will---
Kotori: Thank you...
Kotori: Very much!!