Timeless Friendship 2-5N

Timeless Friendship 2-5N

[Great Seto Bridge]

Aka: Grh! I went through all this trouble to control these priests, and they went down in a moment... How pathetic.

Yuki: We're an organisation that specialises in thwarting conspiracies. We weren't planning on attacking until you came at us.

Aka: I see... We could get along, then. You see, I'm from a family that specialises in espionage.

Aka: In the past, people were wicked, so apparently musclebrain Heroes weren't enough to be champions of justice.

Kar: Grr... Musclebrain this, musclebrain that...  There's got be a limit to how rude you can get!

Yum: Yes, indeed! Apologise to Karin-san!

Aka: Ahaha, what are you talking about? The Miroku family are dyed-in-the-wool musclebrains.

Yum: Argh! M-My ancestor might indeed have had an abundance of valour, but m-musclebrain...

Aka: And in the shadow of that valour, the Akamines were constantly digging up information on the enemies, setting traps and doing dirty work.

Sek: So? What kind of dirty trickery does the descendant of that Akamine family have prepared for us  today?

Aka: Don't make it sound like that. I just wanted to tell all of the people about this world.

Anz: Tell? What exactly?

Aka:　About this twisted world that the Shinju and the Taisha move according to their will. And the ones protecting it in the name of justice are...

Aka: Easily shaken by their emotions to the point of possibly driving this world to destruction, weak, weak Heroes.

SON/Fuu/Tou: !?

Uta: Que? The Heroes aren't weak at all. What are you even talking about!?

Aka: Champions of justice when they're in the right mind and tyrants when they're not. Who would want to entrust their life to someone unstable like that?

Fuu: And to not make people feel unsafe, a lot of measures are used, like the Heroes' existence being kept secret and all the battles taking place in the Jukai...

Aka: I want to give everyone equal choice. You as well... Minowa Gin-chan.

Gin: Eh, me?

Tou: Stop it! Even if you tell that to several hundred people you lock up, the world won't change!

Hatsume: No... Isolation and food are the basics of brainwashing. I assume she was researching the fields and sea routes for that purpose.

Mei: Lock people up and cut off their food, repeat the same thing enough times and people will easily believe it. They'll trust that it's right.

Yuki: And if you release those several hundred brainwashed into the world, the information will travel from one person to another, thought to be the real thing.

Aka: That's right... If a lot of people find out that something so important was kept secret from them and start doubting this world...

Aka: The Taisha will get blamed, the Shinju and the Heroes will weaken and the rebelling god will win... That's how it would've went.

Nat: And... what then?　How does that make you any different from the heavenly god? Akamine Yuuna?

Aka: It all depends on what the people choose. It's sad to not be told anything, right? Nogi Sonoko-san (middle)? Hehehe.

SON: !

Fuu(Sp): I-I have no idea... We're outsiders, so we can't tell what the right choice here is...

Goe: She's right that not being that there's a choice is irrational, but... I'm not sure if exposing it is the just option...

Aka: Tsukikage girls, won't you join me? The heavenly god is the one truly thinking of how to grant people happiness and lead them to peace.

Yuki: We've heard what you have to say. But before we take that hand you're giving us... Momo.

Momo: Akamine Yuuna-san, please excuse me! *lick*

Aka: Eek!?

Yuu: Huh, what was that cute voice just now? Akamine-chan?

Yuu: W-Wh... Why did you lick me?!

Momo: This taste... You look the same, but you taste completely differently from the two Yuuna-chans...

Momo: I taste a whole lot of lies in you!

Aka: Eh?

Momo: Tsukikage will never accept your offer!

Yuki: Well done, Momo. Tsukikage will now fully back the Heroes up as an ally.

Yuu: Well, fine then... I'll have the Vertexes take both you and the Heroes down!