Reborn! Secret Bullet : mono.CHROME [Part 3]
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Ahh... I’m getting slower with each part... But I’m very determined to finish this, even if less than a dozen people read it.
Seriously, I knew what I was getting myself into. The series ended, like, 5 years ago? Still, I would appreciate it if you spread the word around! Reblog away, people, so more of our cozy little fandom can read the elusive novel! (or maybe this has already been translated and I’m making a complete fool out of myself, in which case please do tell me Orz)
Anyway, onwards! Japanese scan credited to @squaloscans, as with the other parts.
[ translation under cut ]
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The hands of the clock pointed at half past twelve.
It was the only clock that was still moving amongst the ruins.
Staring absently at the clock illuminated by the moonlight, Ken sat on the bare concrete floor.
“Hah…”
He just realized that he was thinking about the girl with eyepatch.
He still couldn’t believe the him of that time himself.
Not only did he eat an apple given to him by an unknown woman he’d just met, but he had done it while crying―
(Forget it byon… That sort of thing couldn’t possibly be true byon… Something is definitely wrong byon...)
After he escaped from the mafia and started living in the underworld with Mukuro and his gang, Ken never eat anything unless he worked for it with his own hands.
The only exceptions― are things that Mukuro had given to him.
It wasn’t his intention, but it was instinct. It was an absolute law that cannot be changed. It was the proof of his loyalty to Mukuro.
And yet, he broke that law so easily, Ken couldn’t help but feel regret and anger towards himself.
There was no way he would tell Chikusa about this.
Ever since coming back, Ken had been suffering here alone.
(Why did I, that sort of thing… Dammit… Goddammit…..)
“Ken.”
“!!!”
The sudden voice of Chikusa surprised Ken to the point that he almost stopped breathing.
At the moment when he was about to instinctively shout, Chikusa’s hand reached out to covered Ken’s mouth.
“...There’s an intruder.”
Ken and Chikusa’s advanced into the darkness inside the ruins with their concealed footsteps.
Chikusa silently grabbed his Hedgehog.
Ken, too, shoved his hand inside his pocket and grabbed his ‘weapon’. He didn’t take it out immediately because there were several types of them, and it was necessary to use them according to the situation.
First, he’d need to make sure of the intruder’s identity.
With a cautious movement, the two of them peered into the room in which they sensed a person’s presence.
And then,
“Aaaaaaaaaaa―――!?????”
Scream echoed inside the ruins.
Chikusa clicked his tongue a little, then leaped out from the shadow behind the door.
He jumped onto the human figure inside the room, and brought said figure down in one stroke.
“W-wait byon! Kakipii!!!”
“...”
Chikusa looked back with a cold expression.
He was carelessly grabbing the intruder’s neck.
“You… Why…”
Ken, having looked at that person closely, asked in a trembling voice.
“Why are you in a place like this byon!!!”
It was the eyepatch girl who had given Ken an apple.
“...You know her?”
“Uh!?”
Ken shook his head vigorously.
“This… this girl… she… shesheshesheshe…”
“......”
Chikusa slowly dropped the girl’s body.
“I’ll ask one more time, Ken. Who is this woman?”
“...This...this person is... Um….”
“!”
Chikusa suddenly felt nervousness running through his body.
The girl who had previously been dropped to the ground, without any care in the world, her body rose up once again.
Then, she extended her hand out towards the bag that was rolling on the floor.
“D-don’t move byon! You, do you even understand what situation you are in!?”
Ignoring Ken’s shout, the girl grabbed her bag and reached out for something inside.
Chikusa’s response was instantaneous.
If she took out her weapon, they would be at risk.
Carefully bending his wrist, he raised his Hedgehog without any hesitation―
“...”
But his movement was stopped.
From behind his back, Ken was grabbing his arm.
“...What’s the meaning of this?”
Ken couldn’t give him any answer. Even he himself didn’t understand why he was doing this.
“Ka-Kakipii… I… I…..”
At that moment, the girl finally pulled something out from inside her bag.
“!?”
Packed inside the square box was―orange salmon fillet, light brown fried chicken, vivid yellow tamagoyaki, and white glossy rice.
No matter how you look at it, there was no way this was anything other than a ‘bento’.
“.....”
Ken stared, dumbfounded.
It smelled so delicious, his stomach began to rumble again.
So, to covered up the sound,
“Kakipii?”
“...”
Chikusa silently diverted his gaze.
His stomach, too, was making sound.
“Here…”
“!”
Ken and Chikusa returned to their senses.
The girl expressionlessly offered the bento towards the two.
“O… Oi…”
Ken squeezed out a sound from his suddenly dried throat.
“You… made this byon?”
The girl nodded.
“Don’t tell me… F-for me?”
The girl nodded again.
“...!”
A rage he had never felt before exploded inside Ken’s head.
“You, are you an idiot byon!!! Why do you keep on doing something that doesn’t make any sense byon!!! That-that bento, nobody asked you to make it byon!!! And to give it out all of a sudden, there’s no way I can eat it just like that―― Byo―――n!!!!!!”
Ken spoke so hurriedly that his voice tried desperately to catch up.
“........”
Being on the receiving end of that rage, the girl closed her eye slightly.
“...I see.”
The bento fell down from her hands.
“!”
It was so sudden, both Ken and Chikusa couldn’t move an inch.
The box hit the floor with a clang.
Beautifully arranged rice and side dish scattered around.
“.....”
Wordlessly, Ken and Chikusa stand stock still.
As for the girl...
“...”
She lowered her head.
She lowered her head ever so slightly, and turned her back to them both.
The girl trotted away―
Ken found himself unable to look away from her retreating back.
Now look at what you did and be ashamed, Ken. You and your tsundereness. Chikusa was hungry too, and now he can’t eat because of you. Poor him.
On a little bit more serious(?) note, I don’t think I would eat it either if I were in this situation. You really need to work on your communicating skill, dear Chrome. But you’re adorable like this so eh.
There should be 2 or 3 more parts, and hopefully I’ll be able to wrap this up before the year ends.
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