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Nanana’s Buried Treasure Volume 9 Chapter 5.1

Episode 5: That’s my Justice

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It’s the day of the wedding, in a room in the Grand Hotel.

Ishbal Korunald knocks on the door and waits for a response before entering the room and exclaiming in admiration, 「You’re very beautiful Ulysses.」

「Thank you, brother.」

In the bride’s waiting room, Ulysses in her wedding dress smiles cheerfully.

「I never thought I would see my sister as a bride so soon. If I had known this day would come, I would never have kept quiet.」

She laughs jokingly.

「I know, that’s why I kept it a secret from you until the very last moment.」

At his sister’s words, Ishbal’s smile turns to a wry one.

「Ulysses, are you sure?」

「Yes, I’m prepared.」

Was that the right thing to say for a bride about to be married? Ishbal wondered this, but didn’t say it out loud. His sister was about to go off to battle.

1

The day of the wedding has finally arrived.

The morning began without any particular tension, and I’m still getting ready with a very calm feeling.

「Yukihime-san, are you sure my outfit is okay?」

「Yes, there’s no problem.」

「Really? There isn’t anything strange about it?」

「It’s okay, so stop moving back and forth in front of the mirror and sit down. There’s still some time until the ceremony.」

After being advised, I sat down in a chair after checking myself in my tuxedo in the mirror.

Kata Kata Kata

「Stop fidgeting.」

「No, but…」

「You’re too nervous, Young Master.」

「Yeah, this is all a lie. I’m super nervous. I didn’t sleep at all last night. We’re in the groom’s waiting room. I’ve been like this since the morning with Yukihime-san, who was accompanying me and helping me get ready.

「Are you ready?」

My father and the master came into my room, both in suits.

「Oh, it’s my dad.」

「Sorry, it’s me. But eve so… they say even a horse jockey needs a costume.」

「Shut up.」

「I don’t know why you’re so scared of a wedding or two.」

My dad noticed how nervous I was and poked fun at me. I was angry, but I couldn’t say a word. But then an unexpected voice chided me.

「That’s a funny joke, Sougo. All I remember from your wedding is that you got scared and tried to run away on the day of the wedding.」

「Shut up, Genzo!」

My dad looked embarrassed that Master had revealed such a thing to him.

「Well, do your best」, he says.

He quickly tried to leave the room.

「Dad, what happened to Kunon-chan?」

「What? Are you so scared that you wanted your sister to comfort you?」

「No. I’m asking because I haven’t seen her since I got here.」

「I don’t know. I haven’t seen her since this morning.」

With that, my dad took Master and left the waiting room. It’s not just carelessness that my mother and sister are both absent.

While I was thinking that should be common sense, someone from the hotel called me.

「It’s time, groom.」

「Yes. Got it.」

I quickly stand up.

「Young Master.」

Yukihime approached me and stood in front of me, straightened her disheveled clothes.

「Yeah, it’s fine.」

「Thank you.」

「I’m watching too. There’s nothing to be hasty about. Just stay calm and action with confidence.」

Just by Yukihime nodding and smiling my tension mysteriously disappeared.

So I nodded and smiled.

「Well, I’m off now, Yukihime.」

「Okay, have a nice trip, Young Master.」

2

The setting is a wedding chapel set up inside the Grand Hotel. The splendid interior was reminiscent of the Danjyo Church. A red carpet stretched from the entrance to the podium where the priest stood. The seats on either side of it for guests were filled.

On one side were people from the <<Matsuri>> family, and on the other side were the Korunald family. All of their eyes were focused on me, the groom, standing in front of the priest. So from here I could get a good view of what everyone was doing.

Sitting in the front row on the <<Matsuri>> side was my father, Master, and Yukihime-san. Sittin in the front row of the Korunald side was Jurus and Ishbal.

And for some reason, there was a tense atmosphere throughout the venue. It was not an atmosphere of peace or celebration. The only person with a grin on his face was my dad. Everyone else had stiff expressions.

My honest opinion as the groom is that this is a horrible wedding.

The sound of a pipe organ echoes through the chapel, as if to break the murky atmosphere.

The entrance doors open, and everyone turns their eyes in that direction. Everyone’s stiff expressions relax. The bride, Ulysses Korunald, enters in her wedding dress. Everyone is entranced by her beautiful figure, and hands begin to clap. Before long the whole crowd bursts into applause.

I want to complain about being treated differently and Ulysses, but I feel the same way everyone else does too.

So I walk slowly across the red carpet, and as Ulysses comes to stand next to me on the stage, I say frankly, 「You’re very beautiful, Ulysses.」

「Thank you, Juugo.」

Ulysses’ voice comes back from behind the veil that hides her face.

The bride and groom stand next to each other.

The priest’s words echo through the chapel. It’s a series of sacred vows.

While this is happening I think to myself, ahh, I’m getting married. Well, I might be a little happy if such a cute girl becomes my wife.

Then the image that came to my mind was the smile of the earthbound ghost.

「Wait a minute, stop this marriage!」

I was startled. A sudden, high-pitched voice interrupted what the priest was saying, causing a stir throughout the hall. Everyone’s eyes turned towards the entrance again.

There stood Kunon Yama.

3

The sudden intrusion has caused a commotion in the hall.

「What on earth are you doing during this sacred ceremony!」

Juras, who was sitting in the front row, stands up and glares at Kunon-neechan, who is standing at the entrance.

「I can’t accept this kind of marriage.」

「What?」

「But Ulysses, I’m not happy at all! Marriage is a very, very ,very important thing for a girl! This wedding is definitely wrong!」

「What a selfish thing to say! Ulysses has never mentioned this!」

「I know though because I’m Ulysses’ best friend!」

Then Konon-neechan takes a deep breath and shouts to the whole world, 「My sense of justice will never approve this marriage full of lies!」

After Kunon-neechan shouted, Juras’s shoulders began to tremble with rage.

「You ignorant brat! Stop underestimating adults! What justice is this? That’s nonsense! There is no right or wrong in this world! All there is is power or lack thereof! Don’t force your self-satisfied idea of justice on others, little girl!」

Juras’ words might be right. Perhaps justice is nothing more than an illusion.

「That’s why I speak of justice」, says Kunon Yama.

「What?」

「Justice is a word that describes the path you believe in. That’s why I call what I believe in justice. I speak of justice because I assert that it is the path I should follow.」

Those words are endlessly pure and endlessly straightforward…

「I shout for my friends who can’t shout, that’s my justice.」

That shout seemed more powerful and beautiful than anything else. I honestly thought it was so cool.

「Guh.」

「Jurus Korunald was at a loss for words when he saw the honest and sincere eyes of Kunon-neechan.

Then, as everyone holds their breath, Kunon Yama turns towards me. She looks at me standing next to Ulysses on the podium. Then she smiles.

「So now I will carry out justice. I will take Ulysses Korunald from this place!」

With that declaration, Kunon-neechan starts running onto the red carpet.

Although he was shaken by the whole incident, Jurus acted quickly. He immediately issued a rebuke to his subordinates. The members of the Korunald family who were ordered (or perhaps who were going to do it anyways) all began to jump on Kunon-neechan from the seats in an attempt to stop her.

However…

Kicking the well-built men that jumped on her like a tornado she leaps into the air in one bound. She uses the heads and shoulders of the members as footholds to nimbly advance, as if walking through the air.

Having fended off the first group, Kunon-neechan steps onto the red carpet, where the second wave pounced on her. But no one in the Korunald family can stop Kunon-neechan. She continues to dodge the men that attack her one after the other with light steps, slipping through them in the blink of an eye without stopping.

「W..what the. She’s so fast.」

It was no wonder that Jurus blurted this out with widening eyes. Even the professionals who are active in the underground are powerless to do anything about the actions of just one young girl. However, now in front of Kunon-neechan was a large man standing in her way. A man so large that he was the width of the red carpet.