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Last Embryo Volume 3 Chapter 10 Part 3

Translator: DarkHeartedAlchemist

And now, completely out of the blue a person from another world and age appeared in here, not only looking down on it, but also claiming that it has to be destroyed because it has become “too peaceful”. That outdated way of thinking was completely unforgivable.

「 『Hero Slayer』 Parashurama… if you continue to insist on forcing your ancient fucking values on this world and judge everyone and everything with your fossilized sense of what is right and what is wrong…」

Forcing his aching body to move, Izayoi raised his burned and bloodied fist towards the sky, filled with the sense of righteous indignation that would never lose to the fury of someone who would dare to call herself the Decayer.

「Then I am afraid, that even I… being the nice guy I always try to be… will not be able to show you any mercy even if you cry and beg for it. You won’t be a 『Decayer of Aggression』, 『Axe Wielder』 or a 『Hero Slayer』 to me anymore. You will become just another fiend, a ghost of the past and a monster to be killed right here and now.」

Right now, it might be safe to say that Izayoi was not completely serious during their previous fight, because as powerful as 『Brahmastra Replica』 was, it was not his true trump card. That one was something else entirely, something that he has yet to show in this battle because he was consciously holding himself back with it as it was simply too powerful to be used carelessly. If he chose to fire it up here in the Outer World, even he was unsure of what the potential consequences of that action and the damages resulting from it would be. But now things were a little different, because he realized that as reluctant as he might have been about using it, Parashurama was not the kind of opponent who would give him the option to purposefully pull his punches. Such a leeway was simply not possible for him anymore.

During his battle with the Demon Bull Kin during the 『Minotaur of the Labyrinth』 Gift Game he refrained from using it because Homura and his friends were also there so they could end up getting caught in it in the worst case scenario, but now that he has told himself that his opponent was little more than a fiend, there was no reason for him to hesitate whatsoever. As a hero of this era, it was Izayoi’s duty to destroy 『The Hero Slayer』 who threatened to turn this world into ashes because of her misguided perception of reality.

Feeling the anger and disdain Izayoi felt towards her, Parashurama narrowed her eyes and stared at him sharply.

「Hmph. What the world itself has ruled for them, you say? Indeed, the rules this world seems to be running by nowadays seem like they have changed quite a bit from the ones that had to be enforced back when I was still alive, and the ethics of the human race look like they have also improved quite a bit. But that is only one side of the coin that makes the world, the one filled with light and hope. But tell me, boy, are you aware that at the other side of that very same coin, the abyss filled with all the darkness of the world is also growing deeper and stronger with each passing day, cultivating its filth in the shadows and waiting to wrap its corrupted tentacles around everything that you seem to be cherishing so much?」

「Who knows. I don’t know and to be honest I do not care about such needlessly complicated concepts, so go on ahead and say whatever you want to say to me if it will make you feel any better, it’s not like I am going to even pretend to be listening to even a word of it, because I feel like if I do, it will only make my ears rot and fall off. Of course, there is a nice alternative for you here: all you have to do is go back to heaven or wherever it is you came from and return that body you are borrowing back to its rightful owner, or surrender so that we can stop this nonsense. If you cannot even do something as simple as that, then I am afraid that the only alternative left to you is death.」

Aahhhh….

(Aahhh, now I see. So that is why he did not use that Divine Spear of his earlier, even though it should grant him victory if it really is what he claims it to be.)

Though she seemingly understood why he did not used his strongest trump card against her thus far, she still laughed wholeheartedly at Izayoi’s righteous anger and the indignation he was feeling towards her. Actually, it all felt so funny to her that she wanted to do nothing more but to roll around on the ground and laugh until she could do it no more, but as tempting as that was, she believed that she has found a new way to toy with that boy, the one that would make this encounter all the more enjoyable for her.

The things that the girl who has become her host has seen with her eyes, the hellish environment that she was raised in, and the depths of despair she has been drowning in that made her desperate enough for Parashurama to answer the summons carried by her cries for help… right now, what 『The Decayer of Aggression』 wanted the most was to have Sakamaki Izayoi and Prithvi Mata listen to all of those things, down to the every last detail.

With a sadistic smile on her face, she wondered. Will that boy be able to handle the cruel truth, or will he be crushed under its weight? What kind of face will The Earth’s Mother Goddess, the criminal who tore the planet’s placenta apart make and why will it be the one painted with shock and anguish unlike any the one she might have felt up until this day? Oh, she simply could not wait to see what was going to happen when she drops the truth bomb down on them.

「Boy, you said that your ears will sooner rot than listen to anything that I have to say, but I think this might interest you, especially since you’re feeling so self-righteous that you are calling me a monster here. If you want to learn who the real monster in this story is, then listen to the story I am about to tell you, but let me give you a final warning: if you decide to listen to my words, then you would better make sure that you are absolutely prepared to do so.」

Izayoi did not give her any kind of reply, but judging by how he was not trying to attack her, he must have decided to actually listen to what she had to say. Good, very good indeed. Putting her blood-stained hand on her blood-soaked clothes, she began to speak the tale of her host’s tragedy with a voice that was filled with fury.

「The first thing that you need to know to understand my story properly is this girl’s identity. For you see, she is a Black Albino.」

Placing the bloody battle axe back on her shoulder, she began to speak of the so-called black albino girl’s tragedy, all the while keeping a malicious smirk on her face. However, as she was listening to her, Pritt, who was standing some distance away behind Izayoi to make sure that no harm would come to the girl she was carrying on her back could not understand what Parashurama was saying at all, and therefore she knit her brows in confusion.

She was not trying to be disrespectful. It’s just that she genuinely could not understand what part of what 『The Hero Slayer』 was saying was supposed to be a tragedy. She knew that for a black person, being born without any pigment in their skin was quite a unique, if not downright unusual occurrence, but that was as far as the extent of Pritt’s knowledge in that field went, since aside from the general key points she was not too familiar with the circumstances of each and every race that lived in the Outer World in the present day. In that case she thought that the best thing she could do would be to ask Izayoi so that he could explain it to her what was so harrowing about it, but just as she turned towards him and opened her mouth to ask her question…

… she saw that Izayoi was struck with pure shock upon hearing that revelation, so she promptly swallowed her words in order not to add the unnecessary fuel to the fire.