Warning! Beware of the Dog

· @manga_collector· Xiao Ding Ding (笑丁丁) · Lily Club (橘姬社)

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Capítulo 72

1. "..."

1. "So what are you trying to say?"

1. "You think that I should tell them," 2. "Magic is real, and their world is full of human-eating demons who live amongst them?"

1. "Dragging them into this fight is somehow showing concern for their feelings?"

1. "It's not like I intended for them to have their memories wiped again." 2. "I just didn't account for the fact that the system would reset."

1. "I just didn't account for the hospital contacting people outside of direct relatives."

1. "But what's happened has happened."

1. "Isn't it an act of kindness," 2. "To delete these painful memories for them?"

1. "..."

1. "I understand that you're doing it out of a desire to protect them."

1. "But don't you think,"

1. "It's unfair to them to have their memories wiped against their will?"

1. "If you don't want them to be hurt," 2. "Then why not avoid these violent solutions to begin with?"

1. "Maybe you could have just"

1. "Had a calm negotiation with opal and the director?" 2. ""A calm negotiation"...?"

1. "Just how naive are you...?"

1. "I thought you of all people would understand the position I'm in!"

1. "They hold all the power," 2. "And my only bargaining chip is this flesh!"

1. "Besides these "Violent solutions", what other choice do I have??"

1. "I even told you all to stay away because I knew it was going to worry you!"

1. "But you all ran here on your own and got hurt, so why am I in the wrong for wanting to protect them?!"

1. "..."

1. "You and I..."

1. "We're both actively suffering the consequences of deleted memories." 2. "But now you're saying it's an act of kindness, of protection..."

1. "Why is it that"

1. When the same thing happens to me,

1. "You treat it so differently?"

1. "You..." 2. "You're clearly different from them!"

1. "You had your memories erased to cover up something siniste-" 2. "Why couldn't it be that I accidentally happened"

1. "Upon something that broke my heart," 2. "And someone with the same mindset as you "Took care" of me?"

1. "If you weren't still emotionally attached to the obsidian of the past,"

1. "Why can't you accept the fact that I may have lost my memories for some uneventful reason?"

1. "I just said I needed time, I didn't say I'll never accept your memory loss!"

1. "And our support staff only deletes irrelevant details," 2. "They don't completely reset a person's relationships like in your case!"

1. "Like in your case!"

1. "So it's perfectly fine to delete someone's memories as long as the good parts are preserved?"

1. "Then... The me right now," 2. "Don't I fit that description?"

1. "If you believe that only removing the bad memories is an act of kindness," 2. "Then when it comes to yourself,"

1. "Why is it that you'd rather spend your entire life tormenting yourself," 2. "Than let go of those painful memories?"

1. "I..."

1. "I'm afraid..."

1. I'm afraid that if I forget even a moment of it... 2. I'd lose any trace of hope that you ever cared about me...

1. "...?!"

1. Why...

1. "Why couldn't you wholeheartedly cherish me like this from the beginning?"

1. "I prayed... Time after time..." 2. "That this gentle and caring version of you may have existed in our past..."

1. "So why did you never treat me like this...?" 2. "Why did you wait until now to finally show up by my side?"

1. "...wait," 2. "What are you...?" 3. "Are you saying..." 4. "You wanted the past obsidian... To be more like me?"

1. "I always thought you were just trying to catch a glimpse of her from me..."

1. "She was so strong,"

1. "And I..." 2. "I'm just a cowardly weakling..."

1. "But you're saying the reason you don't want to forget her is because..." 2. "You were trying to"

1. "You were trying to find a glimpse of me... From her??"

1. "Idiot..."

1. "...I thought you knew this already..."

1. I spent my childhood following her around, 2. Dreaming that I could become strong like her one day, 3. Desperate for her approval... 4. I wanted so badly to believe that the bastard who abandoned me... 5. For once, just once, 6. Held genuine feelings for me like you do... 7. I wanted the obsidian I admired to be a superhero who was both loving and powerful... 8. I can't shake that desire, so there's no way I can see you as some stranger I just met...

1. "But..." 2. "If loving and powerful can't coexist within the same person," 3. "And I had to choose between the two..." 4. "I..." 5. "I wish that you had been the one by my side."