Blood Of Platinum
Chapters 11. The World of Day and Night bag. 8
Kaito just silently listened to all the explanations said by Kino. Not a single sentence came out of his mouth, nor the look on his face. His expression did not change until the end of his explanation. Kino completed all of his explanations to the end with some parts that were not told. There was no way he would say his sister's evil intentions in front of the potential victims.
By rolling her eyes at Kino, Ryou looks at her as if saying, ‘why don't you just say that I'm seriously going to slap her after this, Kino?’
Kino noticed Ryou's eyes and looked at him as if she had seen nothing and looked back at Kaito.
“Is everything I said true, Kaito-san?”
“...Haaaah..” Kaito sighed for a moment and opened his mouth, “I know I can trust you, Kino”
“Then you don't deny what Kino said?” Ryou started to let out a slightly elevated tone sign that he was getting annoyed
“I won't deny anything. That's all right. But, you need to know that this is also only realized some time before. Because too long stuck in ‘world malam’ without finding any clues, I myself so often go to many places while in ‘world day’. The large altar building where we hid when we first met was one of the places I visited most often back then”
“Because of that there is a big door, a big wooden door blocker and also a window there. Kaito-san touched it all before”
“True. I touched everything in that place including the chair and the altar. I didn't do it in a day or two. As you know that I've been stuck in this place for a long time without knowing how to find my memory pieces or how to get out of here”
Kaito started saying things he had never told them in the first place.
“When I first entered the ‘world tonight’, the thing I knew was that I was fighting a monster-like creature that kept coming until sunrise. At first I didn't understand why I could get caught in a situation like two realms into one like this. All I know is that this pocket watch of mine is gonna take me to the place where my memory piece is”
What Kaito said was not a lie. From the beginning he did not intend to tell them all the information. But from the first explanation of this place until now, everything is honesty. There is no lie in all of his explanations and that is the truth.
“Keekness appeared after a while I was at ‘world noon’ and I started to notice it slowly. The altar was the first place I went. Honestly the reason I chose that place as the first place I went to was because.I went to steal the money and valuables that were there to survive.”.
Kaito is a very good boy to the point of being honest that he intends to steal money from worshippers who pray there. He must have sincere and perfect religious values. It's a shame, when viewed from the reverse side.
“Crazy basics!!! You can be damned if you steal offerings from the people who pray there, you fool!! I thought something was wrong with your brain!!” Ryou immediately stood up and shouted in annoyance while pointing at Kaito's face with his index finger again
“Ka–you're not serious, are you, Kaito-san? Stealing is not good, you know that, right?” Kino could only say two sentences while silently pecking with a shocked facial expression
“.....” Kaito felt that the two of them began to look at him with a look of disdain and began to mutter in their hearts
‘I thought I didn't have to tell them everything. I'm sorry my mouth didn't lie to them in the first place right now. Otherworldly teen base who is not polite’
Kaito covered his face with one hand while sighing before speaking again.
“... Haaaah..Stop nagging me. You think I want to do it. I had to do it because I didn't know what to do at the time. There were no clues back then and I was just alone”
“Kaito, Don't tell me you commit that criminal act repeatedly every time you return to ‘world noon’?”
“.....” Kaito is silent while nodding the sign he justifies Ryou's words
“Ka–Kaito-san Kino with a pale face and a disappointed look
“I know you are crazy!! You're cursed. It is truly cursed!! That's why you never found the clue you were looking for because you committed a crime!! Crazyhead!. There is no heart!. Sociopath!” and again Ryou's spicy mouth doesn't stop scolding him like it doesn't have brakes
“.... I told you to stop nagging me. And stop the scolding from your chatty mouth, Ryou. You made my ears hurt hearing it”
“Basic...” before he finished finishing his diatribe back, Kino held onto Ryou's arm and asked him to stop.
“Stop saying harsh words to Kaito-san, Ryou. I was a little surprised to hear it too. But, if I were Kaito-san I would probably do everything I could to survive in such difficult conditions”
“You want to be a money thief as well, Kino? You sure?” Ryou looked at his brother's eyes
“I-I don't think I'm going to go that far” and Kino can't dodge the sharp look of his sister when asked about the bad examples Kaito did in the past
“Enough. Back to the topic where I was telling the story. No more comments from you guys or I'll stop”
Kaito was already irritated by the two brothers. Especially at Ryou who can't say good things for all his stories. The two teenagers eventually shut up even though Ryou is still very irritated and listens to Kaito's continuation of the story.
“The point is I did it. Because I stole a lot of money from the people there back then, so of course I touched almost everything on the altar including the big door and the window glass”
“……”
“I approach them, starting from greeting them, sitting together, acting as if I pray there too, helping them do the task of cleaning up, sitting down together, acting as if I were praying there as well, pretend to be lost and other theatrics to take advantage of”
Ryou did not open his mouth, but his heart started to comment again.
‘Jeez, he's really an acute class sociopath!!. I think his fighting skills are great too because he has a combination of sociopathic and psychopathic traits at the same time’
Then, he went back to listening to Kaito's story back.
“All that money I used to find a place to stay until I finally rented a room in this tavern while waiting for the sun to set again and took me to ‘world malam’. That's why the altar building on that night wasn't empty like other places”
“Ok. Now we know the reason. But, is it indeed from the beginning of ‘world night’ like this? I mean, there's only a building with no contents with terrible creatures coming in. You also said that you never saw another human besides yourself in ‘world night’ when you met us the first time”
Ryou begins to be able to talk seriously and does not think of any more diatribes for Kaito. Or it may be delayed for a while until this serious talk is over.
“At that time, I started to realize that the building in this ‘world tonight’ is empty. All of them do have the same structure and shape as when in ‘world day’. It's just, the shop sign and all the other things in it disappeared as if there was never a”
“Then, how did Kaito-san know that the thing that was touched by you when in ‘world day’ was still there when Kaito-san was in ‘world night’?”
“That's because I went there during my fight at ‘world night’ for the third time since being stuck in this place. I fought against a creature called Centaurus back then”
“Centaurus?! The half-human half-horse creature once appeared in ‘world tonight’?” Ryou is shocked to hear Kaito's words
“True. At that time it was only five, but since I had never fought the creature before it made it difficult for me to kill them and was in a desperate state. I don't know where the safe shelter is and can only run to avoid a dangerous fight back then”
In this night‘ ’world, Kaito knew from the beginning that there was no place you could call a shelter and could only run until the deadline ran out to be able to live.
“Until I got in front of that altar and I realized only that place had such a big door in the morning. When I entered and locked the door with the door barrier there, I was very surprised that the contents inside were not empty. Not all of them were there but at least I remembered all the things I touched in the morning and those things were inside. And it turns out that also applies opposite”
Kino's speechless. Never thought that his theory was correct. Just by touching the current object in ‘world day’ can still maintain the object in ‘world night’. And vice versa. No one expected all that.
“You didn't forget the broken glass you used yesterday to fight the dark wolf too did you, Ryou? When you entered ‘world noon’, what happened to the glass?”
Kaito asked with sharp eyes towards Ryou. Ryou gulped and was shocked remembering it.
“The card is still in my hand. Of course I threw it away as soon as I got outside the altar. But, the rest of the shards disappeared like nothing ever happened”
“And it was a shard that was not exposed to the touch of your hand and I at that time”
“Yang is right...” Ryou was shocked while covering his mouth with one hand
“Now everything is clear, right? Why are the objects here still complete and all the weapons and cloth bags are still there. Everything Kino said was true. I'm not denying anything. It's all reality and there's nothing I'm hiding from that statement”
Silent for a moment, the two brothers were still trying to calm down. But, there remained a thin gap from all that and made Kino again curious.
“Kaito-san, I can understand if it's only Kaito-san who touched it. But, I don't understand why the two of us can do that as well?. Why is the thing we touched still here?”
“I guess because your pocket watch” Kaito pointed towards the Kino pants pocket where his pocket watch was kept
Kino took out that pocket watch and looked at it. He was still not completely calm.
“I told you once that I feel like the pocket watch has something to do with me. Until now, I still haven't given up on that thought even though I still haven't found a reason why I'm so sure. But the shape and similarity that the pocket watch has with the pocket watch I carry makes me sure”
“……”
“And I think it has something to do with your question, Kino. I'm sorry, more than this I don't know what else to answer. Because that's the only possibility I have in mind. It's up to you to accept the answer or not, but I'm sure sooner or later you'll find the answer you're looking for”
“It's okay Kaito-san. Thank you for telling all of us”
Kino looked at the pocket watch in her hand with a sad look. Couldn't hide it from the look in his eyes. Kaito sees that but can't do anything about it because he doesn't have any other answers to use. The mood became quiet. The three people in the room were silent for a moment until someone could make the silent atmosphere change again.
“Wait a minute, wait a minute…. Not all of them, is it, Kaito? You haven't said everything, have you?”
Kino looked towards Ryou, “What do you mean Ryou?”
Ryou pointed towards the weapon stored behind him, near the wooden table
“All that, all the weapons that were touched this afternoon are now here. If returning to ‘world noon’ means those objects will not disappear and will continue to be in our hands. Is that right, right?”
“As I said earlier. That's right”
Kino doesn't understand Ryou's direction. He could only look at his sister with a confused look.
“Ryou?”
“Wait, Kino. Let me make sure of something before I do what I told you a while ago” Ryou held back Kino who was trying to hold his hand to make him calm as the older brother used to do to him
He asked Kaito.
“When ‘world noon’ comes back tomorrow, everything will be back to how it was. Does that also mean everything that happened yesterday afternoon while in ‘world noon’ will repeat itself also tomorrow from zero?”
“So far so. No one will remember ever meeting you. Therefore I can steal.Ahem, I mean. Even if someone knows me at ‘world noon’ that day, when ‘world noon’ tomorrow comes it will all come back like the first time it happened. At least it was evident from the severe injuries I had last night”
“Oh ho. So, I can conclude that the butler of the diner and the drugstore and the owner of the gun shop will not remember your face and ours. Yes, right?”
“True as I said that everything will come back. Since then I no longer steal anything and wait until ‘both worlds’ switch”
Ryou turned red and tried to hold the emotion meter in his heart.
“That is, they won't remember that you haven't paid for all these orders including the cost of eating and staying at this place. I'm right, isn't Kaito?”
“Aa...”.
Kaito covered his mouth with one hand and showed a vexed face while saying inwardly.
‘Wire. I know what he'll tell me after this’
With both hands, Kaito closed his ears tightly. And that is his strongest defense. Ryou stood up and approached Kaito while holding both of his shoulders firmly.
“That's tantamount to cheating, you crazy!!!! Best effort you can say!! You really made good use of the oddities huh, great master!! You can say you don't have to worry about money and say you'll pay for everything you ordered!! Since the beginning you do not want to pay everything and take advantage of the peculiarities between ‘kedia’ this two worlds! Basic cunning, immoral, con man!!”
“Ryou!! Relax Ryou, don't say any more harsh words. Hold your emotions Ryou! Listen to me..” Kino quickly stood up and tried to pull his sister back to sit down
After a few minutes of effort because the sister refused to stop issuing the phrase ‘pujian’ to Kaito, Kino managed to make him sit up.
While looking towards Ryou, Kaito could finally open his ears back and was like looking at the shadow of a kitten trying to claw at criminals while hissing.
He could even hear that hissing sound from somewhere in his mind.
‘Entah why I could see there was a kitten that started to craze and hiss in front of me. I guess I'll start to get scared of kittens and get hit by ailurophobia after seeing her’.
What a thought that ‘sweet once’ from Kaito to Ryou's emotional face to make him look to the side as if he did not want to see the red face.
“I did try to make good use of this situation. I didn't lie when I said I was trying to do what was best for you. I don't want to involve you in my problems. But I also realized it was impossible. Moreover, you also still do not have any instructions to return to your place of origin.”
“Kaito-san..” Kino became a little moody and looked at Ryou
Knowing her sister could not be calmed down easily, Kino again tried to convince her.
“Ryou. In addition, he also did it for our part”
“... Cih..”
“Although you may be right that I have cheated, but ‘the victims’ will not remember what I did to them the next day. It all came back from the beginning again. Can't that be called cheating?”
“Keep what the correct designation of your version is, huh!!”
“Getting all that on ‘free’ by way of ‘not normal’, I guess proper appellation” with leisure Kaito smiled
“Basic criminals!!”
“Haaaah... Please you two stop this. I just want to confirm my theory to Kaito-san. For the rest, we think of a way to survive the goblin group out there. Understand what I mean?”
Kino is already mentally tired of facing her emotionally charged younger brother and Kaito who seems to be happy to be ordinary but looks like provoking.
Kaito fell silent and Ryou could only see the older brother who kept sighing a few times. Ryou approached her face into her brother's ear and whispered something to him. And instantly Kino's face turned as pale white as a corpse and let out sweat from his forehead.
He held Ryou's hand with both his hands firmly and forbade him from standing up for the umpteenth time.
“Do not..try doing it, Ryou. Whatever happens, don't try to do it. I beg..”.
“I told you I'd do it once. Don't stop me. Shut up here” Ryou tries to get rid of Kino's hand
“R–Ryou, if you do I won't talk to you again. Please don't do–”
“That's business later. I had to resuscitate this crazy person's point of view” Ryou managed to let go of Kino's hand and stood up again in front of Kaito
Kaito looked at Ryou's face with his head slightly upward. Right after, a slap landed on his left cheek.
- Plaac
“Ryou!!! Didn't I tell you to stop!!” Kino was startled and shouted while standing holding Ryou's right hand trembling
Holding her left cheek, Kaito asked in a flat tone to Ryou.
“So, is this a thank you because I've been honest or because I saved both of your lives?”
“This is my biggest appreciation for the person who said that he believed in the two teenagers he just met!!”
“So”
“You open your ears well, Kaito!! My brother and I have decided to trust you even if this is the first time we have met!! Since you were the first person we met, the first person who kindly asked us to follow you and give us shelter. You're the first person to listen to Kino's request and the first person to try to protect us from the monstrous beasts of this place. On the basis of all that, my brother and I never once doubted your words”
“......”
“And on the basis of all that, we decided to fight with you. From a normal view, it was impossible for a stranger to believe in another stranger in this place. But Kino insists on believing in you and I don't want to doubt you too”
“Then, what do you want to tell me exactly Ryou?”
“I want to say I'm a little disappointed in you because you can't fully trust us like we did you. It pisses me off and would love to do this!”
Kaito did not look angry, instead a thin smile was seen on his lips.
“Doing this? He meant slap me like you do this?”
“I wanted to punch you in the face and slap you afterwards. But because Kino's face was clear so I lightened it into one slap to your face”
“Ahaha…. Good. Thank you so much for lightening it up for me”
Kaito laughed hearing that. Kino can only apologize for his brother's arrogant behavior to Kaito but Kaito can only laugh and smile.
“It's okay. I was wrong to think that you didn't need to know everything so far. I'm really sorry. I'm not gonna do it again. To be honest, it's the first time I've had the pleasure of meeting someone else since the trip looking for pieces of my memory. I'm glad I met you guys”
“Kaito-san, we are also very happy. I always felt we would always be safe with you and this feeling had not changed until now”
“So, the bullshit has stopped and there's nothing more for you to say, right? Then there's no need for another slap for you. Yosha!!, I am relieved once”
Ryou looks happy even though Kino has started to be at the bottom of his mentality.
“Actually, there's still something else I haven't told you since I've never given any clues that Kino can realize. Want to hear no?”
“……”
Ryou's happy face instantly turned red again and Kino's two hands immediately held onto his sister's body firmly. This time Ryou made up his mind.
‘I'll give him one fist with another slap as bonus’
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