Devils - bright complex 6
Jun. 2nd, 2019 12:58 amLocation: Game Center
Ritsu: ……………
Rei: Ritsu~?
Why don’t you play some of the games around here with your Onii-chan while we wait for Aoba-kun and Hinata-kun, who seem to be having some secret talk, to return? You’re bored, right?
Ah, in case you’re thirsty, I bought some tomato juice earlier so feel free to drink it! Here, it’s your Onii-chan’s treat ♪
Ritsu: ...Ah, I am sorry. My parents and the teachers at school told me not to accept things from strangers, so…
Rei: Stop using keigo, it makes me feel like you’re gutting me with a sword!
You know me~, I’m your Onii-chan~? Cooome, sweep the bottom of your memory and remember your Onii-chan...!
Ritsu: Annoying.
Rei: Uuu. So cold… Why do you treat me so indifferently, even though I am the one and only blood-related brother of yours?
Ritsu: Ah, my brother already died. Right now, the kind Aoba Onii-chan acts as his substitute and heals my wounded heart.
Rei: I’m alive, I’m alive! See, my heart is beating like “thump, thump”! Touch my chest and confirm it for yourself!
Ritsu: Err, could you please refrain from acting like a groper? I am going to report you.
Rei: Uguu. So you’ll persistently treat me as a stranger, Ritsu…
In that case, I don’t mind. I will no longer hope to touch you the way I did in the past. But at least let me care for you.
You’re precious to me, you’re the apple of my eye...♪*
Ritsu: ………..(looking at him as though he’s looking at trash)
Rei: Uuu. Young lady~, what ever should I do? Ritsu is bullying his Onii-chan~!
Ritsu: Transfer student. Stand behind me, there’s a suspicious person loitering around here.
I’ll protect you. I’m a member of “Knights”, and the transfer student is a precious blood pack, after all...♪
Rei: Eh? Ritsu, you didn’t drink the young lady’s blood, did you? You can’t do that, laying your fingers on a layman who knows nothing!
Ritsu: Are you in any position to spout that~? I heard about it, you’re planning to do that fucking ridiculous family ritual again, right?
Choosing some random sacrifice and killing them… Aah, nowadays they just make you taste someone’s blood, was it..?
You know you don’t have to do that so sincerely? If you absolutely refuse to do it, they’ll let you off the hook, you know?
Or, rather. If you tried to run away with it with all you’ve got, no one would be able to find you. Even if the whole family tried to chase you, it’d be impossible for them. There’s not a trace left of the influence of their bygone days, after all.
Everyone’s weakened and worthless, cowering in the darkness. The reason you won’t avert your eyes and properly go along with them… Is it for my sake?
If you ran away, the next one in line to shoulder that responsibility would be me, after all.
And I wouldn’t be able to run away. For me to keep on living, the know-how and personal connections our family offers are necessary.
Because my blood is darker than yours. I wouldn’t be able to run away underneath the sunrays like you.
Are you pitying this younger brother of yours despite having thrown me away once before, and that’s why you’re putting on this good Onii-chan act?
That pisses me off from the bottom of my heart. Seriously, you should just die already.
Rei: ...So this is the reason you’re angry, Ritsu?
Ritsu: What are you talking about? It’s not like I’m angry at you, I just find you so annoying and gross and hate you so much that I want you to die!
It’s like I’m being embraced by a cockroach for some reason, and in the middle of searching for my insecticide spray!
Rei: I understand. In that case, of course I accept my punishment. Because I repeated my mistake, and hurt you once again.
I’m a failure as an Onii-chan. I should have known this from the beginning, instead of making you say all these things.
Ritsu: …………..
Rei: Don’t misunderstand me, Ritsu. My younger brother. You’re right when you say that in order to protect the family, I fulfill duties that I am reluctant to do.
Whether I was blessed with it at birth, or cursed with this condition, I am able to live even beneath the rays of the sun...
Therefore, I want to become a sunshade to those who can’t do that.
I can act as an intermediary. That’s how I repay the favor of being born into this interesting world that I received from our family and ancestors.
I am merely returning what’s been given to me, and I’ll be free once that’s been taken care of.
With painful reluctance, I refuse to enjoy this fleeting world. It’s the tax I pay in order to sing praises to humanity, as human society’s common sense dictates.
Ritsu: ...Stop using a roundabout way of saying things, like flinging around metaphors and the like. No, rather, I’d like you to stop treating me like an idiot.
In short. No matter how much your appearance and speech changed, you’re still the same.
So unlike a human who can be found anywhere, you are just unable to change, huh. How pitiful.
I am childish, immature, weak, and can’t even spend a third of the day walking around outside… This pitiful little brother of yours who can’t even get out of bed at all on the bad days...
Thinking I would have to spend the rest of my life like this, I was so scared, and reached my hand out desperately towards the person closest to me...
I begged you, “Don’t go anywhere, stay by my side”.
And just like right now, you acted the smart guy, and agreed with the kind of reasoning anyone would wish for...
And despite having nodded your head in agreement and making the “Promise” not to go anywhere…
It was nothing but smoke and mirrors, a lie, just random words without any meaning whatsoever. In truth you yearned to run away far away from here, and you broke your “Promise”!
Leaving the little Me behind…!
And despite that, you’re repeating the same kind of lie again right now!
You’re gonna carry out the ceremony to become the next family head, you say? How about you don’t get too carried away with how much you’re willing to shamelessly make light of people?
You’re just going to break your “Promise” again, and trample everyone who believed in you underfoot.
Just like our distant ancestors, you’re merely sucking the lifeblood of virtuous people and stealing their souls away.
Someone like that shouldn’t be alive. Why don’t you keep up the pace and rapidly grow old and decrepit with age? Ashes to ashes, dust to dust… Why don’t you let the wind carry you away and disappear?
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*Rei originally uses an idiom that literally translates to “It wouldn’t hurt even if I put you inside my eye”