—And punishment was passed down—
After the USE (Union State of Evillious) collapsed into dysfunction due to the Leviantan Civil War, the Tasan Party came to power in the country of Elphegort. When Nemesis Sudou, imprisoned for the murder of a judge of the Dark Star Bureau, was released with a pardon, the Tasan Party gave her a seat as deputy party head out of popular demand. After carrying out the mysterious disappearance of the actual leader, Gammon Octo, Nemesis became the Tasan Party’s new head. And after that, having gathered support both inside and outside the country, Nemesis and the Tasan Party finally got to where they could take over Elphegort.
Becoming a dictator, Nemesis commanded her troops to invade the Republic of Lucifenia. Elphegort was expelled from the USE for that act, but its troops didn’t lessen the invasion force, forming a military alliance with Beelzenia as well as Jakoku after gaining control of Lucifenia. Headed by Marlon and Holy Levianta, USE troops opposed them, planning a large scale siege around Elphegort. A neutral party, the United States of Maistia, also declared its support for the various countries associated with the USE. Due to Jakoku declaring war on Maistia, coals for the fire of war came to expand all over the world. With Elphegort falling into a predicament thanks to the counterattack of the USE forces, they carried out at Supreme Führer Nemesis’s side development into a new weapon—determining the manufacture and deployment of the popularly named ‘Punishment’.
A prototype ‘Punishment’ released for a test run completely burned down the forest in the Southwest of Elphegort.
When the USE troops had liberated Lucifenia, a countless number of ‘Punishments’ were already aimed all over Evillious. The Golden Key that starts up its firing mechanism, ‘BLACKBOX’, is now—
Clutched in the hands of Elphegort’s leader, Nemesis Sudou.
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01. master of the hellish yard
02. The Muzzle of Nemesis
03. The Last Revolver [Nemesis Version]
04. And Then the Girl Went Mad —Ending Tale on a Moonlit Night—
05. The Journey of Two Mages ~Great Wall and Watchman~
06. Blink
07. handbeat clocktower
08. Flower of the Plateau
09. Bloodstained Switch
10. Watching Us
Before my eyes is a rectangular black box
In the center of the black box is a small keyhole
A golden key goes inside the keyhole
That key is in the palm of my hand
Bloodthirsty wolves, dead who are skin and bones
Birds dancing in the red sky release strange cries that pierce my ears
Ah, I finally realized
That this place I find myself in now
Is obviously hell itself
Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma
Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma
I am master of the hellish yard, the destroyer of hell
This place that shouldn’t have existed,
The time has come to return all of it to nothing
The sin divided into seven, and weak-seemingly produced hell
Erasing that that is the mission given by me
If I put in the golden key, all of the stories will end
That final ‘boy’ I’ll fire at the forest,
Its name is ‘punishment’
Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma
Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds
This place that shouldn’t have existed,
This blood smeared hell, ‘Evillious’, shall disappear
An assassin-turned-dictator, when she fired ‘punishment’
Someone said:
“Now we are all… sons of bitches”
Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma
Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma…
-0001
Sinful man
Come, repent
Hey mother, right now
I’m aiming the muzzle of my gun at a man
A son of a bitch who ruined many people
And filled his own pockets
For the sake of this man, I
Even killed the one I loved
And then I shot myself too, but
I couldn’t die
The time has come for my revenge, so
Come, repent
Hello and good-bye “Mr. Pere Noel”
Your house has been set on fire; select either path:
Will your brow be shot through?
Or will you burn up inside this hellfire?
Hey mother, any scoundrel
Should be granted a chance for atonement, right?
Therefore I said this to him: “Relinquish your fortune to me
“If you pay back the people from whom you stole everything, if you have just your life, I shall save you”
He replied
“I will never hand over my fortune to the likes of you”
You’re trash that can’t be helped huh?
Even so, repent
Hello and good-bye “Master of the Court”
A corrupted judge drowned in greed
Let mine and the people’s hatred wash over your body
Then sleep
Hey mother, you labored on your own
To raise me
I was born in a deserted house in the forest
I didn’t even know my father’s face
Hey mother, it seems father is
Already done for, he’s insane
He’s convinced the doll is my older half-sister
She had already sunken
To the dark bottom of the ocean long ago
I’m now his only daughter, but
Hey father, look at me
Look at me too!
Hello and good-bye… goodbye “My father”
The boss of hitmen, a corrupted judge
Hey mother, why would you love
Such a man?
With this it’s truly over
Let’s make everything end
This story of sinful evil
Farewell
Sinful man
Come, repent
-0016
Santa gave to me
A revolver with live rounds
I aim at you standing before my eyes
Goodbye, the one I love
If I could do it over
I’d want to go see the summer fireworks festival again
Just the two of us
Sorry, ‘cause I know
That such a thing is already impossible
Because from the beginning, everything between us
Was just too different
Beneath the cherry blossom tree
You met the “evil” me
You were on the side of “justice”
Even so, I came to like you
This isn’t my first time shooting someone
But this is the first time I’ll shoot while crying isn’t it?
Please, because it’s all my fault
Don’t make such a kind face
In spring we met and fell in love
In summer we made a lot of memories
On an autumn night we became one
In winter we marked the end of everything
The hammer raises, my finger on the trigger
My index finger trembles slightly
In the end I said “Sorry”
In the end, you…
If I could do it over
I’d want to go see the summer fireworks festival again
Just the two of us
Don’t worry, because I’m sure I’ll be able to see you soon
Let’s always be together
That’s something we always said, huh?
-0017
Shadows of the light; while becoming afraid
Inside their vanishing traces, I wait for my mother’s return
Avoiding fine weather, while secluded in this hut
Am I really still sane?
“Abandoned, huh?” “You’re abandoned”
Someone whispered
You’re wrong
Because something like being deserted
Can’t be happening to me, right?
Left all alone, I
Little by little quietly start to go mad
By the spare light of the great moon
I can’t be illuminated
Left all alone, I
Am beginning to forget both smiles and tears
The sole feeling left behind
Is overflowing wrath
When I awoke, I was always on my own
It’s so frightening I can’t sleep
In this room that’s covered in darkness as though painted out
I tremble alone
Unlock the door, unlock the door
No matter how many times I shout
That plea isn’t granted
Only the invisible twins’ voices
Resound
Left all alone, I
Little by little quietly start to go mad
Or maybe this really is
What my mother wants
Left all alone, I
Am beginning to forget both smiles and tears
The sole feeling left behind
Is overflowing wrath
-0029
A female duo advances on a rough road
A lovely sorceress and her apprentice
Seeking the cursed sword, they came from the west
Ah, before their eyes is a long, long wall
If they passed that wall, it would be a short ways to their destination
The female duo draws closer to the wall
Standing there in their way is a lone man
Hey you foreigners! You should take your leave
I was given this order from our great king:
“No one except the people of our country passes through here”
The female duo left from the wall
They paint their hair black, the same color as the man’s
Feigning like the country’s people, they try to advance
But the man once again shakes his head
“The people of our country’s skin isn’t such a peculiar white”
The female duo left from the wall
They paint their faces with mud, the same skin color as the man’s
For sure this time, they try to advance
But the man again shakes his head
“The people of our country’s eyes aren’t such a ghastly color”
Don’t think badly of us, travelers
In order to protect this vast and great country
It’s necessary to have this wall and a watchman like me
Having lost her temper, the sorceress
Creates a wind, and the man blows away
The gates of the wall open, and when they proceed ahead
There’s nothing there, there was nothing
What that watchman was guarding,
What the heck was it, do you think?
A female duo advances on a rough road
A lovely sorceress and her apprentice
Seeking the cursed sword, they proceed to the east
Ah, before their eyes is a vast, vast ocean
-0451
When this sapling has taken root
I think I’ll be more of an adult than I am now
When it’s grown extremely tall
Will I be alive?
Will I still be living?
When it’s grown many leaves
I think the world will be changing more than it is now
When it’s become a splendid, large tree
Will my sins be forgiven?
Will they be forgiven?
Even the span of a millennium
I think to you would be a blink
Surely, surely
I pray, to the base of this tree
For eternal peace
For eternal peace
-0494
Smiling and sitting in a chair at the top of the clock tower,
Are you a demon, or are you my mother…?
The moving second hand sways, a normal spirit
Above the clock tower is justice or poison?
Each time I advance up the spiral staircase, a handbeat reverberates
Time and conflict, they strongly etch onto my heart
Hands that wallowed in greed and were sullied in sin
Who is the companion who should wield
The sword in the place of atonement?
A portrait of a girl that my hands drew that day
That faint memory was the beginning of madness
With seven nightmares, an abnormal evil that was
Brought forth by a lone woman destroyed everything
But because the correct way
Still hasn’t vanished
A dramatic Story <of Evil>
Is now drawing to a close
I won’t hesitate anymore, even if this is an unavoidable fight
Even if it comes to turning my sword on you
Smiling and sitting in a chair at the top of the clocktower,
Are you a demon, or are you my mother…?
Someone, someone tell me
What in the world is “evil”?
I have just one hope; my heart is so empty
That I’ve grown sick of despair
There isn’t much I can do, but
I tightly grasp my hands
And am always praying
For an end to this falling rain
Someone’s laughing voice resounds louder than the long hand’s sound
Now there’s only madmen in the Handbeat Clocktower
Someday time will pass, if the day we can laugh at this suffering comes
With my own hands I will write the true story
I won’t hesitate anymore, even if this is an unavoidable fight
Even if it comes to turning my sword on you
Rotting and sitting in a chair at the top of the clocktower,
Are you a demon, or a person who was my mother…?
-0494
There was a woman called the “Flower of the Plateau”
A lovely flower vendor, she was adored by everyone
Her peacefully comforting smile was surely an angel’s
There wasn’t anyone in this town who knew
That she used to be a harlot
When a young lord fell in love with her at first sight
Everyone rejoiced and blessed her
And wished the two many years of happiness
There wasn’t anyone in this town who knew
That she used to be a harlot
The day before the engagement, a man appeared in the town
An ugly, vulgar brute who leeched off women
Someone who knew the secret, someone who knew her past
—A flower absolutely must be pure—
—A flower absolutely must be pure—
Three years passed, and a boy appeared in the town
Who sought his mother’s love, even if that person
Was a dumb whore who cast him aside at birth herself
—A flower absolutely must be pure—
—A flower absolutely must be pure—
Isn’t it good for the “Flower of the Plateau” to be happy?
She must not pay attention, she has no need to pay attention
To the two dead leaves and such buried at the bottom of the well
—A flower absolutely must be pure—
—A flower absolutely must be pure—
There isn’t anyone in this town who knows that she used to be a harlot
There isn’t anyone in this town who knows
That she used to be a harlot but me…
-0852
The one who pressed the switch,
It wasn’t me
This morning,
My kind father who I loved a whole lot
Turned into a pulpy mass of blood and meat pieces
The way Papa worked at the factory,
Watching that was so fun that
About every day I would come to visit him
Because the red switch
Is very dangerous
I obeyed the order
That I mustn’t push it
The one who pressed the switch,
It wasn’t me
The one who pressed the switch,
It was another me
I should try to be a good girl; though I decided to that extent
Why do you do things your own way?
Hey Doctor,
Papa’s death was really my alter ego’s fault
Didn’t the doctor say
That if I swallowed
The blue and white pill she gave me,
The switch wouldn’t come on?
The one who pressed the switch,
It wasn’t me
Before I knew it, the switch of changing places
Had been pressed
Ever since I was born, a girl who wanted to kill
Had taken root inside of me
The one who pressed the switch,
It wasn’t me
The one who pressed the switch,
It was another girl, so
It’s not my fault
It’s not my fault
It’s not my fault
It’s not my fault
It’s not my fault
It’s not my fault
It’s not my fault
So
Don’t inject me with that needle
I hate that needle!
-2012
It was a cold night
As we love such a quiet night,
We peek [below]
Although it’s a quiet night, there are rascals getting in the way
The ones crawling around [below], those rascals called humans
Humans never rest, they work even through the dead of night
The trains they run stand along that railway line
Today again two factories are always quarreling
Which of their smoke stacks’ smoke rises the highest?
The smoke they belch forth
Was inhaled into lungs
A boy selling newspapers collapsed from illness
The boy is poor, so he couldn’t go to any hospital
In the bed in his home, he clutches his chest, coughing
From his wooden apartment window, the boy
Was watching us
On the next night it seemed
That boy’s sister added on to her work
For her brother’s medical bills
Humans never rest, they work even through the dead of night
She chose a job in the cotton mill
Next to that factory was a paper mill
To compete today too they continue to belch forth smoke
The black smoke rises up high until the sky where we are
It turns to black clouds, and conceals the top of the factory
Because of the factory where the girl works
We can’t see
Humans gave us the name of [stars]
And they pray and wish, but
That doesn’t mean that we can cause miracles, does it?
From this sky we
Are only watching
The boy is poor, so he couldn’t go to any hospital
The girl works at a factory to pay his medical bills
The black smoke rises up high
Until the sky where we are
-4213
022
The birth of Adam Moonlit
The birth of Meta Salmhofer
021
The birth of Eve Zvezda (Moonlit)
007
The birth of Elluka Chirclatia (Clockworker)
BT 004
The birth of Irina Clockworker
EC 001
The birth of the “Twin Gods”, Hänsel and Gretel
The murder of Meta Salmhofer
The disappearance of the “Twin Gods”
013
The Levianta Catastrophe
014
Adam and Eve’s corpses are discovered
015
Outbreak of “The Seven Deadly Sins”
Held requests that Elluka search for the “Vessels of Deadly Sin”
113
The birth of Cherubim
136
The Venomania Event
137
The murder of Duke Venomania
138
With reincarnation magic, Elluka obtains Lukana’s body
147
Feudal Lord of Calgaround, Gilbert, is married
212
Asmodean secedes from Beelzenia
296
The birth of Banica Conchita
301
Holy Levianta is founded
325
The disappearance of Banica Conchita
399
The Kingdom of Lucifenia is founded
485
The birth of Riliane Lucifen d’Autriche
The birth of Alexiel Lucifen d’Autriche
491
The death of King Arth I of Lucifenia
499
The death of Queen Anne of Lucifenia
The rebirth of Michaela and Gumillia as humans
500
Lucifenia invades Elphegort
505
The Retasan Coup
The Hedgehog upheaval
508
The New Four Horseman incident
510
Lucifenia becomes a republic
531
The establishment of the Freezis Foundation
548
Elluka and her apprentice head East for Jakoku together
549
The Battle of Jagahara
558
Elluka and her apprentice leave from Jakoku
592
The new continent, Maistia, is discovered
593
The birth of Margarita Blankenheim
595
The birth of Lemy Abelard
597
The Lioness Burning Incident
609
The Toragay Epidemic
The death of Margarita
610
The Rolled Serial Killings
611
The Duel of Merrigod Plateau
Gumillia goes missing
776
Elluka goes to Maistia
Maistia declares its independence
The United States of Maistia is founded
822
The birth of Kayo Sudou
842
Elluka once again visits Jakoku
The Enbizaka Murderer scandal
878
The formation of the USE by the Treaty of Aishikeru
944
The birth of Gallerian Marlon
964
The birth of Nemesis Sudou
978
The Sinking of the Titanis
983
The Leviantan Civil War
989
Nemesis becomes head of the Tasan Party
993
Elphegort invades Lucifenia
Outbreak of the Great War in Evillious
998
A prototype of a new weapon, “Punishment”, is unleashed on the Millennium Tree Forest
999
ta eschata
When I made the Third Period, I prepared four endings in this world. No matter what progress they would follow, either of the four would arrive in the end. That is the rule, and in practice it went exactly that way. It was the absolute worst ending among the four. Well, I was fine with that. But I wasn’t pleased with the fact that there is a part of this ending that was led along by a specific being. Intervention towards her ending would be a clear breach of the rules. Try as I might I can’t accept that.
So I intend to break a rule too, just this once. That might also be feasible, if I can borrow the power of Held’s successor. How would I do that? I am the Creator. Everything that the humans of this world can do, I can do too. That’s the short of it.
“Well, it’ll be your turn before long.”