Chapter 229 God Does Not Know Himself
After the power of light in Aki Sakaki's body was extracted, she basically lost the chance to evolve into "Agito".
"Those angels will no longer target you. Even the monster that attacked the Dawn passenger ship two years ago will have no reason to attack you. You are safe." Kawahara said lightly.
"Is everything you said true?" Sakaki Aki asked doubtfully.
"What else can you do if I tell a lie?"
"..."
"Ah~ Mr. Kawahara, please be gentler with girls! By the way, Miss Aki, do you need me to take you home?"
After the lull, Shoichi Tsugami became particularly enthusiastic.
However, Sakaki Aki still rejected him. She was like avoiding some plague god. After making sure that there was nothing for her to do, she left decisively.
"She will definitely go back to their gathering place for survivors." Awihara Ryo suddenly said.
"Very good." Kawahara replied casually.
No matter what purpose Aki Sakaki had in mind, since she already knew that the "Angel of Water" was lurking among the passengers of the Rising Sun, she could just tell those people when she returned.
No one touched the fruit plate that Shoichi Tsugami specially brought over. He looked around and simply pushed it to Awihara Ryo.
"Mr. Ashihara, you just woke up and want to eat something? I cut these fruits very carefully!"
"No, I'm not hungry."
Awihara Ryo was not in the mood to eat either.
Hearing this, Tsugami Shoichi asked curiously, "Huh? But you haven't eaten for two days, right? Are you really not hungry? Or will you not be able to digest food when you die?"
In other words, what you ate the day before is still in your stomach.
Awihara Ryo looked at him expressionlessly.
The experience of dying once is already disturbing enough, and this guy keeps talking about it over and over again!
Before Shoichi Tsugami was beaten to death, Kawahara asked him to go downstairs and continue working.
There was such a loud noise upstairs just now, but the people downstairs seemed unaware of it, even though there were not many customers in the store at this time.
While Tsugami Sho was muttering to himself behind the bar with a fruit plate in his hand, the sound of wind chimes rang out from the door of the store. He immediately looked over with a smile on his face: "Welcome——"
The enthusiastic greeting got stuck in his throat, and Shoichi Tsugami restrained his smile and looked at the visitor.
Sawaki Tetsuya, who appeared at the door, was also stunned when he saw him, then he looked away, turned around and walked up the stairs as if he didn't see him.
Shoichi Tsugami stared at his back.
……
The two people upstairs were tidying up the messy room. When Tetsuya Sawaki came to the door, Kawahara, who had a premonition, said something without turning his head.
"Didn't you tell Shouichi the truth?"
"He just wants to know what happened to Setsuna, but he doesn't believe what I say..."
"What did you say?" Kawahara asked curiously.
Zemu Tetsuya lowered his eyes and said, "I told him that I killed Mr. Fuuya, but he thought I was lying to him."
Kawahara paused after hearing this and said, "So you wanted to trick him like this. I'm sorry. If I had known, I would have contacted you before telling him about his sister."
Ashihara Ryo who heard this conversation nearby: ? ? Isn't it normal that Tsugami thinks it's "cheating"?
However, Tetsuya Sawaki said firmly: "No! It was indeed me who killed Mr. Fuuya, and it was also me who caused Setsuna to lose her life!"
Kawahara looked at him: "..."
Agito's symptoms have become contagious from person to person, and Sawaki Tetsuya has begun to become obsessed with it. This man tries to take on all of Agito's sins to atone for his sins.
He had even atoned for his sins once before.
So Kawahara just asked Tetsuya Sawaki to find someone to teach Kana Okamura, instead of asking Tetsuya Sawaki, who was already suitable for the job, to do those things.
Because this person had no intention of letting him stay from the beginning.
Kawahara didn't say anything else, so Zemu Tetsuya paused and asked, "You came back to find me, did something happen?"
"Aweihara is dead." Kawahara answered immediately.
"..."
Sawaki Tetsuya looked at Ashihara Ryo who was standing next to him alive.
Awihara Ryo sighed, and had to tell his story again from beginning to end.
He came back from the dead...
Sawaki Tetsuya's pupils shrank slightly.
"Life" is the heaviest thing in the world.
Because a lost life will never have a chance to start over again, the desperate Setsuna Sawaki died in front of him. From then on, neither the person she loved nor the person who loved her would have the chance to meet each other again.
Unable to bear this heavy burden, Tetsuya Sawaki also chose to commit suicide shortly afterwards.
So he has actually died once.
But he was later resurrected by "God".
Regardless of his wishes, God just took a fancy to his decision to "let go" of Agito and decided to make him the messenger to bury "Agito".
——Life is not heavy for God.
And at this moment, the man in front of him also easily achieved the miracle of "resurrecting the dead".
There was an indescribable emotion in Sawaki Tetsuya's eyes when he looked at Kawahara again.
This person is also another side of God’s creation. “I did not detect the actions of the Angel of Water…”
Zemu Tetsuya looked at him with a complicated expression: "But I think this matter may indeed be related to him. He knows that you are back, and he said that you will soon understand that the existence of Agito will destroy all mankind."
Kawahara was reassembling the bed board that was collapsed by Gills, and he was using the power of creation directly to do carpentry work.
After noticing the four-cornered seal on the back of his left hand, Sawaki Tetsuya's eyes moved, and he also looked down at the dark power seal on the back of his right hand.
At this time, the other party's voice came.
"I got it."
Kawahara said calmly, "I know what he wants to do. He thinks I don't understand humans as well as he does, so he wants me to face the sins of humans, thinking that I will be willing to admit my mistakes."
Sawaki Tetsuya looked at him in a daze.
It seemed that I didn't understand for a moment.
Kawahara continued lightly, "The lessons of history tell us that humans will not learn any lessons from historical experience, so humans are stupid, arrogant, absurd and narrow-minded. - So what will they do after they get the power of Agito? Of course, they will be controlled by the authority brought by this power. Humans will magnify their desires and wantonly destroy others and everything they have."
These words almost degrade human beings to the point of being worthless.
Sawaki Tetsuya's breathing stagnated, and he stared at him nervously with wide eyes, as if he saw the god in the darkness who was also indifferent to humans.
This is the nature of human beings as seen by God, and Tetsuya Sawaki has experienced it personally.
But God was wrong in one respect.
God said - "He has never felt those human emotions, and yet he thinks he is right."
But he clearly knew everything.
This person also understood the essence of human beings, but he chose to accept the existence of Agito and chose the future of human beings with "Agito".
If this is the other side of God's creation...
Then God probably doesn’t even understand himself.
……
……
Tetsuya Sawaki left again, returning with Kawahara's little provocation towards the God of Creation.
Looking at the room that had been restored to its original state, Awihara Ryo stared at Kawahara with complicated eyes for a long while, until the latter took the initiative to look at him.
"What do you want to ask?"
"Are you really human?"
Awihara Ryoya asked without hesitation.
Kawahara raised an eyebrow: "What are you talking about? Of course I am a human being, with flesh and blood!"
Ashihara Ryo said with a strange look on his face: "A super ancient human who lived for 10,000 years?"
"You just came back to life. Do you have to be expelled from the human race? A decent person won't come back to life." Kawahara Sakon said.
"Hey, but you did this, didn't you?"
"But it doesn't really matter whether you are human or not. You just need to understand why you are fighting. And it doesn't matter if you can't be a human. You can still be a Kamen Rider."
Kawahara quietly expelled him from the group with just two sentences.
Ashihara Ryo was stunned: "Kamen Rider?"
There is no such thing as "Kamen Rider" in this world, and even this combination of words is only circulated among two or three people, so - Kuuga is just Kuuga, Agito is just Agito, and Gills is just Gills.
Only Kawahara thought they were Kamen Riders.
"There may be a difficult battle tomorrow, and you may die again." Kawahara said suddenly.
"Will that water angel come to stop us?"
Ashihara Ryo subconsciously thought of the water angel, who, even though he had not fully appeared, still brought him great threat and oppression.
As for whether to die or not, even though he had only truly died once, Ashihara Ryo actually felt like he was used to it.
He thought for a moment and said, "Whatever. It has come to this point. I don't think I have any reason to withdraw. Besides, I have to bring Okamura back no matter what."
"Really……"
Kawahara responded and said nothing more.
He looked at the Yaguru symbol on the back of his left hand and felt something strange in his heart.
Since returning to this world, he sometimes has an indescribable premonition, like the state when he used the "Sealing Stone" to sense the entire world in the Blade world. Perhaps this can be attributed to the perception given by the power of creation.
And it seems that something...
As he traveled through the vortex of time and space, he was connected to this world.
Especially after Ashihara Ryo told the story of how Kana Okamura was forcibly abducted by a group of people, this premonition became clearer, so much so that Kawahara believed that when they went to rescue Kana Okamura, the obstacles they would encounter would definitely not be the so-called human garrison.
Not even necessarily a god above water.
It is well known that Kamen Rider has many parallel worlds.
The Hachioji base of the Self-Defense Forces involves a G4 plan, but this plan does not exist in the original trajectory of Agito's world.
But now it seems to be starting to happen.
Then that...
Will high-ranking angels who dare to "rebel" against God's will also appear?
...(End of chapter)