#this is also why ryui and nagi themselves have a better resistance to astaroth's power

[shunin-gumis]

Temptation Towards Apoptosis - Track 08

L4mps 1st Feature Event

This chapter was translated by me!

Location: Hotel - Room

Nagi: Maybe today’s the day Ryui finally feels grateful for one of Netaro’s inventions.

Netaro: You mean he wasn’t grateful before!? For all the genius inventions that my genius intellect had created!?

Toi: …

Ryui: Toi, are you scared?

Toi: Y-Yes… 

Ryui: Don’t worry. We’re gonna expose that shitty demon for what it is, not you, alright?

Toi: But… 

Chief: (Toi-kun… He probably hasn’t figured out what exactly it is that he wants.)

Chief: …Maybe we don’t need to look into Oshisha-sama’s memories today.

Toi: Chief… 

Chief: Maybe we could try to find some other way to approach this, and come back to Netaro’s invention another day—

Ryui: We don’t have time. You don’t know what kinda state Toi’s in right now, do you?

Chief: That’s…

Ryui: We don’t need half-assed opinions from an outsider who doesn’t know shit about us. Not like I expected you to get it in the first place—

Nagi: We’re not outsiders.

Yodaka: …Nagi.

Ryui: …Ah? You say somethin’?

Nagi: …

Chief: Wai- Don’t fight— 

Nagi: Chief, it’s alright, I can handle this.

Nagi: Ryui, I won’t deny that we don’t have the whole picture, but that doesn’t make us outsiders.

Nagi: If you’re worried about burdening us or anything like that… 

Ryui: Like I said… None of you know SHIT about what Toi’s going through right now…! Don’t try to casually insert yourselves into our lives, it causes more problems than it helps.

Nagi: We’re not treating this casually.

Ryui: *scoffs* Real rich coming from the guy who was running his mouth over a damn pot or somethin’.

Nagi: It’s weird how you just selfishly define your relationships as a pain, or that it’s too much trouble. 

Ryui: Selfish…? We’ve been betrayed so many times… 

Ryui: This disgusting thing was shoved onto us, by our very own parents, by the adults we trusted! No matter how many years have passed, it’s…! Do you know how it’s hurt us— 

Toi: —STOP IT!

Ryui and Nagi: !

Toi: Just stop… 

~~~(flashback)

Toi: (...Reading fortunes always made them happy.)

Toi: (Mother, who Ani-sama cast aside by calling her “disgusting,” grandfather, and—)

Location: Hotel - Room

Toi: Stop speaking badly of A-chama.

Ryui: Wha… 

Toi: (If I become like A-chama, would Ani-sama call me disgusting and cast me aside as well?)

Toi: A-chama isn’t… A-chama isn’t disgusting…!

Ryui: T-Toi, did it say something to you? Did it make you some kinda deal? You can tell me—

Toi: A-chama didn’t do anything to me! They didn’t say anything to me either! A-chama always listens to my concerns, and helps me with my problems!

Ryui: There’s no way that’s… 

Toi: Ani-sama, stop making assumptions when you don’t know anything about A-chama either!

Ryui: …

Toi: A-chama isn’t an enemy, they aren’t hideous. A-chama is- A-chama is— 

Toi: (Who I’ll become in the near future.)

Toi: So don’t deny them…!

Ryui: T…Toi… 

The others: ……(……)

Toi: Ah… 

Toi: No- Ani-sama… This isn’t what I- No, nononono.

Toi: (Why… Why am I so…)

Toi: Even though I want to stay a good boy… Even though I want to remain the same person you love…!

Ryui: …Ngh.

Ryui: It’s okay. Toi, it’s okay.

Toi: I’m sorry, please don’t hate me. I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m… 

Chief: (What should we do at a time like this…)

Yodaka: …We should give them some privacy.

Chief: Right… Yes… 

Chief: (That’s all we can do right now…)

Netaro: Huh? What about the experiment? What about the memory of the demon?

Daniel: We’re leaving.

Netaro: Uwahh–! Unhand me–!

Daniel: C’mon Nagi, you too.

Nagi: …We’re not outsiders. Afterall, we’re— 

Location: Hotel - Room

Toi: *yawn*... 

Toi: (I’m in bed… When did that happen…)

Toi: (My head hurts…)

Ryui: You awake? Looks like you’ve worked up a small fever. You should go ahead and sleep.

Toi: Ani-sama… 

Ryui: …The others left some stuff for you. Putting aside Yowa’s garbage, there’s some sports drinks, instant senbei broth and… 

Toi: I can smell… something nice… 

Ryui: That’s probably— 

Toi: Nagi-kun’s bouquet…?

Ryui: Yeah.

Toi: Did he go out to buy it this late at night?

Ryui: He stuffed his suitcase full of ‘em apparently. He's strange… No, that guy’s far beyond strange.

Toi: …I’d like to smell it, a little closer.

Ryui: Alright. Can you hold it? Here—

Ryui: Wha–...

Ryui: (It withered away all of a sudden—)

Toi: …

Toi: …I see.

Ryui: Toi… 

Toi: …

Toi: (I’ve already crossed the point of no return.)

Ryui: This is nothing, alright? I’ll call Morozumi-san right now— 

Toi: Ani-sama. Can you get my diary from the desk?

Ryui: …You don’t need to write in it today, get some rest.

Toi: No, that’s not why.

Toi: Here… Read this part.

Ryui: This is…?

Toi: Yesterday, I asked A-chama what they did with the real Oshisha-sama.

Ryui: …!

“What happened to the previous Oshisha?”

“Why of course, I cut its [ ] and shredded its [ ] and took its [ ] and ate it.”

“Aah, its [ ] was truly exquisite. I took its [ ] apart, after which I [ ] without leaving a single scrap—”

Ryui: …! *gasping*

Toi: …

Ryui: No… B-But then… If the previous Oshisha was killed, then…?

Ryui: (How am I supposed to save Toi…!?)

Toi: …

Toi: To tell you the truth, Ani-sama… I said I didn’t make a deal with them, but— 

~~~(flashback)

“Shall I teach you how to monopolize your brother's attention?”

Location: Hotel - Room

Toi: The truth is… 

Ryui: …I see.

Toi: I’m sorry for hiding it from you.

Toi: (I’m sorry that I’m not a good boy…)

Ryui: …I’m sorry for yelling at you too.

Toi: (…Thank you for despairing for my sake.)

Toi: Hey, Ani-sama. Toi: Let me have your tomorrow, promise?

Notes:

Nanbu Senbei, flour crackers are consumed not only for a snack but also as a staple diet & alcohol side dish in the southern part of Aomori. Senbei-Jiru is a soy sauce broth with vegetables, fish, meat and mushrooms adding cracked Nanbu Senbei in it.

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