VOLUME 11 NOTES

[murderingthetime]

(chapter 42)
(Break's awake!)
R: Xerxes, are you awake?
B: Reim... where am I? Am I still... at Sabrie?
R: Eh? Are you awake...?
S: You're at the Lainsworth Household. You're... finally awake... Break...
B: ... My... Lady...!?
(KER-HARISEN)
S: Damn it! You and Reim just disappeared. I thought you were acting strangely... why can't you just explain everything!? Why do you just throw yourself into dangerous situations?! It's because you want to fix everything in a hurry, and it makes you tired and sick!!
B: No... you...
(SHARON HAS TEARS IN HER EYES. BREAK AVOIDS EYE CONTACT)
S: How... How many times have I tried to reach out to you... I'm scared...! Really scared...
R: Lady Sharon.
R: Hey, Xerxes! You made Sharon worried! You should apologize!
O: You made a girl cry, geez break. You should!
R: AH! Oz-sama!!
O: Good morning~ Break~ [Are you feeling better?]
A: [You're still alive...]
O: Great. Come in, Gil.
G: Br...Break... Ah... you're... all right...?
B: ... I feel really sick after seeing seaweed-head like that.
G: (||| u.u)
R: XERXES!!
B: Oh, yes, Oz-kun. How long have I been asleep?
O: Uh... almost three days?
B: Three days...
O: Oh man -- when you fell there was a really weird earthquake. Then we came here.
B: Earthquake...?
O: Ah... how should I put it...? That's... something that makes us very uncomfortable... Then Pandora officials came and brought us back. They told us "It's dangerous here! Go back home!" So we also parted with Elliot and Reo.

(Oz just wants to be friends with Elliot.)

B: Yup-- I came especially to save you.
O: Seems like it.
B: My aim was to discern the consequences of your actions. (Misses the cake on the first grab.) It's like I said before. Oz is the center of all these disturbances. I was thinking that if I'm lucky I might be able to meet the Baskervilles --
G: Huh? Why would you want to meet the Baskervilles?
B: ...... It's a secret ♥
G: ... you...
O: (Huh? What's going on...? Something's wrong... with... Break...?)
B: Someone is still very tired. So, youngsters, please hurry up and leave~~
R: You just want to postpone writing your report.
B: No~~ I would never think of making you, Mister Reim, complete that!
O: Jeez... what's up with that? Rest well, break.
O: That's...
RE: Xerxes... is fine, Oz-sama. ... So, please don't tell other people yet.
S: Oz-sama? What is Mister Reim doing?
O: Ah. They... still have things to say!

B: Ah-- I was a bit surprised -- I knew Oz would find out, he's a perceptive kid. But I never thought you would notice, too.
B: Mister Reim is now all grown up~~
R: Please forgive me. (THROWS CANDY) Nonsense!
B: That's unacceptable. Didn't Lady Shelly constantly say that food isn't for throwing...
R: Xerxes. You really... can't see a thing...?

S: Sabrie... used to be an experimental lab for Pandora. Sabrie is full of the Abyss's power. In order to better understand that power, Pandora used those who gathered around Sabrie. After Break was lost, I let Mister Reim tell the truth. Using opportunities to work as bait, they locked people underground.
O: They used humans to research the power of the Abyss.
S: Human experiments.. they were people who had nowhere to live. So they used those people as their specimens.
A: So that was what the clown and the four eyes were trying to hide?
S: Yeah. Well, I think whatever Mister Reim is trying to do, he's doing it reluctantly. I'm just not sure how accurate what we said is. I think it's to protect Oz from harm, since that information hasn't been verified yet. It's just... Break... He didn't speak of it in front of me, because he didn't want me to hear something so dark. Mister Reim said.
A: What?
S: I am.. not a child anymore that requires constant care. I want to properly... be with Xerxes-Nii, and help him.

(Chapter 43)
B: What exactly are you trying to do...!
R: What's that!! You can probably see after all!
B: You're a moron. I can feel what you're trying to do from your breath.
R: My... breath?
B: Exactly.
B: I'm not completely blind. I am incapable of distinguishing people's faces, but if objects are placed in front of me, I could recognize them. ... Although, I'll lose that ability soon enough.
R: ... you're so calm...
B: Hahaha. You thought I would panic? Don't you know my entire body is withering?
B: Ah... guess so. So, what if it is! Like I've said before!! To me, being blind is nothing! It's only because I had just woken up. That's why Oz found out. Give me three more days. By then I'll have assimilated. Then I'll be recovered and everything will be like normal. Even if I were thrown amidst a group of Pandora members, I have faith that I would be able to kill them all!!
R: ...... the way you say that.... I don't doubt you could do it. How terrifying.
B: And that's why I say I can do it.. ... I wouldn't just rely on visual information. That's why I don't find being blind a problem...
B: ....Oh. If I were asked whether being blind was actually lonely, you wouldn't disagree. And yet, now I don't feel so tense.
B: Because to me this punishment is indeed redemption. The problems I originally thought were painful just couldn't be pushed away. Perhaps, even after my atonement, I'm still not forgiven.
R: ... is that so? In the end, your explanation is based solely on self-satisfaction, isn't it?? ... you said you only need three days, right?
B: What?
R: You need time to get used to your current condition. If you're planning to hide this from people, I'll help to accomplish this. ... Even if you can feel breath, you still won't be able to read. So, I'll be taking over any work relating to this.
B: Eh-- ... Reim-san... It's not a problem? You don't need to look after me like that.
R: It's okay. Besides, you always push you work onto me. So there's no difference.
B: Then I shouldn't care? Even if the duke is upset...
R: No problem! To prevent Lady Sharon from crying... I'm sure that our thoughts are the same. ... And this is my job.
B: ... yes. Such an advisor to this house, so to speak.
R: It's not like that. You are an idiot. I'm saying this as your friend!!! This is what I out to do!! Xerxes... you moron!!!!
B: ... hm... really... he hasn't changed at all... [hahahahahahahaha]
B: ..... thank you... Reim.

(Oz wants to talk to Gil in the carrriaaggee alone.)
(Sharon, Gil, Oz, Alice go to Barma. He tells them to go to a sorcerer who was involved with the seals.)

(chapter 44)
(The random bonesaw woman in the cabin. Oz has another destroy destroy destroy moment.)

(chapter 45)
(Gil contracted Raven instead of the other Nightray brothers)
(The Pandora seal mirror thingers take the seal and doesn't fuck up the contractor. The power exerted is limited, but safer.)
(Nightray assassination attempts, headhunting)
(Ada and Vincent are daaaating)
(The headhunter is back)