Now, then... Enough waiting.
The farce is over.
Bey, Malleus,
Leonhart, Babylon,
and Tubal Cain.
Dawn will soon come.
When it does, the war will begin.
Let it drive you into the depths of madness.
As it stands, two swastikas have opened.
Both lack one worthy of being sacrificed to Lord Heydrich.
The first will be Lady Kircheisen.
The second will be Spinne.
None but these two
are worthy of the Golden Blessing.
But six remain,
and there are six of us.
Thus, if we do not get greedy, everything will work out.
Lord Heydrich wants blood.
He has not changed a bit since the old days.
Everyone, keep that in mind,
when acting as his fangs and claws.
First, I shall permit five,
or three more than now,
to be opened.
However, as much as possible, avoid choosing the same day.
A war is preferable to a massacre.
Give us victory.
Fujii-kun...
But will Lord Heydrich
be willing to simply wait for us?
I do not expect that he will...
Samiel, you are to open the fifth.
You must force it, so feel free to get rough.
Then play with them for a bit.
Pound them into shape.
Jawohl, Mein Herr.
Look at this.
The bridge is completely destroyed.
Promise
We still don't know the cause,
but we have multiple reports of a giant.
Some suspect the giant to be
some kind of gas-induced hallucination.
Great Suwahara Bridge Destroyed Giant Appears?!
Suwahara has already been
plagued by a series of brutal murders.
What's going on?
This isn't the time to go to school!
Ren isn't here, either.
This is suspicious!
I've decided!
Hi!
Hi?
Bang.
I have your woman!! Give me a call
Hi! Hello?
Honjou, what are you doing?
Ren-kun, you're safe! I'm glad.
Listen, what are you...
Oh, Kasumi-chan's right here.
Want to talk to her?
You dummy!
Dummy! Dummy! Dummy! Dummy!
Do you know how worried I was?!
Shut up, shut up.
Calm down, korpokkur.
Who are you calling a korpokkur?!
Shirou, don't tell me
Hear that?
you've been spending all this time, messing around here?!
She's fine. Shirou, as well.
I see.
Fine, then.
I was initially concerned, but it saves me some trouble.
I can't have her going to school right now.
It appears she wasn't planning to go, anyway.
Either way, I guess this isn't a good time for her to go.
Explain what's going on here!
So, Ren-kun,
are you more interested in talking to us?
Yeah.
You have information, right?
I want it.
But first...
I know.
Yo, Ren. You safe?
Well, what's up?
You know what!
Don't tell Kasumi a thing!
About our fight or anything else!
Roger. I guess you'll owe me one.
Hey, is that Ren?
Let me talk to him.
You're so annoying!
Here, come this way.
Let's hear what you have to say.
Did you get any further with Ren?
Further how?
What, you'll stay a virgin forever.
Hopeless...
Shut up!
Anyway, back to our discussion.
I see. That's rough...
But this senpai? Was leaving her okay?
No.
But the priest said...
I doubt you trust me,
but I would like to say this.
I have no intention of hurting Theresia.
You trust him.
No way.
But he didn't seem to be lying, outright.
It seems pretty clear they know each other.
If you'd tried to take her, you might have ended up fighting all of them.
Oh, well.
You couldn't do that while protecting them.
More than anything, you lack information.
That's where you come in, Honjou.
The eight places they say they've set up in town...
You know what they are, right?
I do.
Suwahara City's always had a bunch of weird companies.
If you include places under their influence,
it's basically everywhere.
Like you heard,
this whole town may have been made for their purposes.
My grandpa said the same thing.
Your grandpa?
That's right.
Have you forgotten the name of the hospital you and Shirou stayed at?
My parents run it.
Honjou General Hospital
The Honjou General Hospital.
You're actually rich, and you act like that?
Act like what?
Anyway, because of my family, I know
a lot about shady stuff in this city.
And these things you called swastikas...
There are eight, right?
Yeah. They said two have already opened.
Any idea where?
Yes.
Probably the park
and the museum.
Then, at least half of the remaining six are simple.
My hospital.
The school.
The church.
You figured those out yourself, didn't you?
For the hospital, it was only after what you said, but yes.
I don't know the other three, though.
Tell me, Honjou.
The amusement park.
The Tower.
Civic Hall.
That makes eight.
In these eight places, their influence is especially strong.
Excluding the church, all are places where many people gather.
There will be no shortage of sacrifices.
What will you do?
You can't protect all six simultaneously.
I'll go to the school.
It's selfish, but that's the most important place to me.
Also, Sakurai and Rusalka were there.
I can't ignore them.
Okay.
I thought you'd say that.
The bridge was destroyed, and videos of that giant are on the Internet.
After all that chaos,
everyone staying indoors for a while would be great.
But Japan's been at peace for so long,
you can't hope for that.
You can't do something about the people at the hospital?
Well, I'm going to do what I can.
I see.
Anyway, thanks, Honjou.
I promise to repay you, someday.
So be careful.
Don't do anything crazy.
Bye.
Are you done talking?
Look at this.
I borrowed Kasumi's uniform!
We're going to the school, aren't we?
Does it look good on me, Ren?
Yeah, it sure does.
It really does.
Let's go, Marie.
Everyone's acting weird.
Yeah.
And Sakurai and Rusalka aren't here.
Senpai isn't, either.
In other words, they're trying to keep anyone from escaping?
They've arranged it so everyone goes to school, no matter what.
With hypnosis or something...
But if that's the case, why aren't they here?
And when did they do this?
Damn it. I didn't realize it at all.
Ren! Let's sit over here!
Your eyes are like this!
You haven't rested at all, have you?
So sit down.
It's nice!
Thanks.
I'm hungry.
You're hungry, Ren?
Yeah. A little.
Are you okay, Marie?
I'm fine, but what should we do?
Want me to find you something?
No... It's okay.
I'll find myself thinking about things that I can't change...
Like always.
I want to hear about what you usually did here.
Lots of people your age are here, huh?
And the building's pretty, like a castle.
It looks like a lot of fun!
It is fun.
Really?
Yeah.
Kasumi and Shirou were in my class.
They're dumb and noisy.
So they were always magnets for trouble.
But really, that was so much fun.
I hoped it would continue forever.
I'd always go to the roof to get away from everyone.
My first year here, I met this weird, older girl.
And Kasu-dummy came up after me.
It ended up being somewhere we hung out.
Shirou was always really arrogant,
and Senpai would eat these weird sandwiches.
Until just a little while ago,
the four of us were always together.
And now...
Then, can I be the fifth person?
Is that okay?
Okay.
I'm sure it'll be fun.
It's a promise.
Gute Nacht.
Goodnight, boys!
She's here.
Yeah, it seems so.
Wait—
What's going on here?
Is that...
Hide her, somewhere.
Yeah, I know.
We lied to Ren-kun.
If we let her die, he'll be scary later.
Ren?
What was that?
It can't be. A swastika?
In der Nacht, wo alles schläft
Wie schön, den Meeresboden zu verlasse.
Ich hebe den Kopf über das Wasser,
Welch Freude, das Spiel der Wasserwellen.
Durch die nun zerbrochene Stille,
Rufen wir unsere Namen
Pechschwarzes Haar wirbelt im Wind
Welch Freude, sie trocknen zu sehen.
Bravo!
Pretty good stuff for an old lady.
Welcome.
I didn't think you would come.
Oh, you're talking about Bey, right?
He seemed into you.
But I like taking other people's things.
No, that's right...
I like messing with what others are doing.
Oh, it tickles!
It feels so good!
Your territory is the school.
Was cosplaying as a schoolgirl starting to hurt, you old loli?
No, I'm taking that one, too!
I'm mean, greedy, and hungry.
So please,
let me eat you.
Briah―
Csejte Ungarn Nachatzehrer!
So cute!
You know that won't work, but it's all you can do!
Now, you two,
let me hear your last words!
This is so boring.
Déjà vu again.
You're boring.
I'll crush you, lesser beings!
What were they talking about?
Are they stupid? That's the problem with monkeys.
Hey, what are you thinking?
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to get in your way.
Why have you been on my ass?
You've been tailing me all day.
I thought you'd kill me at any instant.
And this is the result.
Explain.
I had something to do at the place you wanted to go.
I wanted to do things as quietly as possible,
so I tailed you.
But I guess it made things worse.
Even so, the one good thing, I suppose,
is that this is still fixable.
Think you can get away from me
with those words, after interrupting me for your own purposes?
If you want to apologize, tell me one thing.
What were you and Spinne secretly doing?
It looks like you tried to shut him up.
Oh, dear...
Species that act based on intuition are difficult to handle.
Very well.
He and I were looking into the Sonnenkind bloodline.
What?
He once activated the Berlin swastika.
You remember him, don't you?
Isaak, who was absorbed by Lord Heydrich, became the core of Valhalla.
His mother was Riza Brenner.
Bey, do you recall that Isaak had a brother?
Yes. A twin, right?
Johann, I think.
I was told that he was dead.
Don't tell me...
Yes, Johann survived.
Riza lied about his death.
Most likely, she didn't want to see him sacrificed.
In other words, there was a second Sonnenkind...
But then,
where is that bloodline now?
I see...
So that's it?
Put another way...
Yes, I shall use all the pieces prepared for me.
As our acting leader, that is the justice I must see done.
A Mother's Sins
Illustration: wingheart