the whole Spiral story without drawings or voices or whatev
The creator, the devil, God, Blade Children, Adam and Eve, everyone's ages.
Posting transcripts of two important chapters here just so I don't have to read the manga every time for information like this.
Spoilers.
[Ayumu] I'm hesitating from where I should start asking, maybe from what you said before? If there exists a God-like person, then there exists a devil-like person to oppose him.
[Madoka] I've heard about it from Ayumu too.
Kiyotaka-san, who is "God", disappeared so he could fight that "devil"?
And the powers hidden within Ayumu are needed to beat that "devil"?
[Eyes] There would be no trouble if it were so simple.
The problem lies after the devil has been defeated.
Narumi Ayumu, do you believe in the "Creator"?
This world, this universe, the "Creator" who created everything that exists and existed... everything started from that whim.
[Ayumu] Hey. I have to star believing such fantasy?
[Kyrie] If you accept Kiyotaka as "God", you should acknowledge the "someone" who created him, right? You have to accept that to understand what happened.
You can think about it as just a fictional story, but that's what the "God" and the "devil" said.
[Madoka] Kiyotaka-san did?
[Kyrie] Yes.
[Eyes] Once upon a time, the "Creator" created this world, and he scattered many existences throughout. And finally, the "Creator" thought, "Let's try eradicating the humans".
Narumi Ayumu, the "Creator" heard ways of killing humans from this world-- what occurred to him?
[Ayumu] It's like the Bible's world... to drown them using heavy floods?
[Eyes] People won't be eliminated by such a thing, like they had the ark in the past.
Even if it takes time, it's a method that can wipe out humans.
With this method, the "Creator" dropped down to this world what we call the "devil".
Stronger than anything, higher than anything, an absolute existence that cannot be beaten by people.
[Ayumu] Stronger than anything... higher than anything... he had all the power... just like aniki--
[Eyes] The devil's name is Mizushiro Yaiba.
He was born to a Japanese couple. For some reason, he had a rib missing.
[Ayumu] A rib missing... that's the common feature of the Blade Children--
[Eyes] And that Mizushiro Yaiba is the father of all the Blade Children.
[Ayumu] ... what on earth does it mean? I don't really care about that "Creator" part. Why was only one person sent to destroy the humans? And there are dozens of Blade Children, right? How can one person be the father to so many kids?
[Eyes] Mizushiro Yaiba was...
[Kyrie] Born into this world 16 years before Narumi Kiyotaka.
Before he received his judgment, he grew up being called a genius kid, and with that trend he got stronger.
His ingenuity was displayed in everything, without fail, he always amazed his surroundings.
He grew up with some kind of charisma. Just like Narumi Kiyotaka who was born after him, right?
An absolute genius. An absolute presence. Everyone who knew Kiyotaka would've thought so about him.
He could even catch the world within his grasp.
... It's alright for you to think of Mizushiro Yaiba as the same as Narumi Kiyotaka, whom you know.
When Yaiba reached the age of 23, he founded the organization "Knights" and stood as its leader-- with his wit, Yaiba became a part of the management of the financial world while leaving his actions ambiguous. He enlarged the organization, leaving its outward appearance. In 3 years, the organization had immense influence.
When Yaiba turned 26, he managed to become a man who warped the world with a black curtain.
At the same time, he was called "God".
He was headed into a state of being worshipped, just like those who were superior in the financial world after more than 40 years there.
No matter what he did, as long as he had a plan, nothing went wrong for him. And from another direction, if you turned against him, you would surely be destroyed.
[Ayumu] I understand that Yaiba seemed as amazing as aniki. It certainly wouldn't be weird if aniki had the power to govern the world. But that part about destroying, it is different.
Even aniki, if he faced billions of people, there is no way he could've killed them all.
[Kyrie] That's right. Even if he tampered with the balance of nations' powers and created a world war, humans would survive. Even if it were Yaiba, I still doubt he could create such a situation with solely his clout.
The group known as humans is stubborn, but not that foolish.
That's why when Yaiba got to the age of 29, he made one project within the organization.
That was the "Blade Children Project".
[Madoka/Ayumu] "Blade Children Project"?
[Eyes] That's right. It was a devilish plan to mass produce Yaiba's children. Those who participated during that time called it the plan of a God.
[Kyrie] Artificial insemination, test tube babies... you've heard of such techniques of reproduction, right?
In our time, you can even create life in a cold laboratory. If you have the right amount of technique and funds-- it isn't that hard to mass produce the offspring of a certain person.
You can let a sperm and an egg cell fertilize in the right vessel and nourish it until it attains a human shape, and then keep taking care of it.
It's an absurd idea in terms of reasoning, because it's just "manufacturing" in huge amounts while each kid is missing affection and family.
But there was almost no resistance from the medical staff and genetic scholars who participated in the plan.
If you manage to recruit the egg cell donors who will become the mothers, you'll exceed the predicted number in no time.
A lot of people wanted Yaiba's lineage.
Now and in the past, the eugenics are firmly rooted. The kid of a strong person is strong. The kid of a wise person is wise.
There are many people who think that talent is strongly inherited, just like hair colour, eye colour and skin colour.
[Ayumu] Don't be foolish!
That's already being denied by genetics and statistics these days.
[Kyrie] Ara. Can you say such a thing? Narumi Kiyotaka's little brother!
Narumi Kiyotaka's little brother... your outer looks, your talents, your taste... and even the star circulation, they are all just like Kiyotaka's.
You can't deny the strong relation of blood, and you're not even Kiyotaka's kid. You are tied to Kiyotaka's blood as a little brother!
[Ayumu] That's true...
I feel the "power" of being connected to him as a "little brother"... not just me, but everyone around me...
[Kyrie] The "Blade Children Project" was explained as a genetic experiment at first.
To what level can the transcendental Yaiba's talent be inherited? Would the kids have the same talent as Yaiba? Or maybe Mizushiro Yaiba was the first generation of mutants?
Still, there were dreams who said such things...
If there were dozens of kids born with a part of Yaiba's power, the world would change. The intelligence would then accumulate and produce a better future for this planet.
That plan even looked like an experiment to artificially create exceptional people who would carry the world on their shoulders in the future.
All of the problems regarding practicality were sealed with Yaiba's influence. There were a total of 80 kids born from artificial insemination with Yaiba as their father.
Ruth-kun (Eyes), Kanone-kun Rio-chan and the others are part of those... that's why you guys were connected with the blood of your father and became "siblings".
[Eyes] That's right. Not only Kanone, but Rio and Asazuki and Ryoko are all my siblings. If we're talking about birthdays, I'm the youngest. But I can't get into the mood to call anyone but Kanone-kun big brother or sister.
The kids... as expected, there were those who opposed it, but there were many mothers who agreed it as proof their strong strain.
These children, as the name of the project were called "Yaiba's Children" (the Kanji for Yaiba is the same as Blade). The "Blade Children". At the time, that was a blessed name, but... afterwards, it became a cursed name.
[Kyrie] Under the control of the organization, these kids were brought up in their mothers' residence. And when they were 4 years old, they all exceeded normal kid's in every aspect. We knew they carried the right ambience for those who had succeeded Yaiba's blood.
Get it? Every one of those 80 kids?
[Ayumu] -- that is... really weird...
[Eyes] But as a result of that, there were people who were enraged--... that we had obtained "God's blood".
[Kyrie] Of course, people within the organization who felt terror because of the plan appeared. All the more... as talks about the 2nd and 3rd Blade Children Project began.
They came up with a solution and directly appealed that Yaiba, who lay at the root of the plan was a dangerous existence.
Do you know why such a plan of producing a large number of brilliant kids who resemble Mizushiro Yaiba is dangerous?
[Ayumu] Is it some kind of anthropological problem?
[Madoka] ... the homo sapiens who exterminated the Neanderthals...!
In the past, Kiyotaka-san really said something with such a weird meaning...
Our ancestors, the homo sapiens, have exterminated other primitive races as part of the process of evolution. There can't be more than one race. The current "humans" today have kept on living by killing all other races sharing the same "humans' base form".
Above all, the neanderthals were completely exterminated by the homo sapiens, who were more skilled than them at violence...!
[Kyrie] My, my, Kiyotaka-sama loves to leave clues about.
Well... that's the inevitable phenomenon of natural selection in the evolution process.
The neanderthals were the rules of the earth. But those who appeared afterwards, the homo sapiens who excelled in violence, caused their extinction within a couple thousands of years.
No matter how much a group boasts its prosperity, if a superior group unwilling to coexist appears, they'll be exterminated at once.
[Eyes] Part of the organization guessed at that.
Wouldn't that Mizushiro Yaiba be a new race that will lead to the destruction of humans?
If we accelerated the breeding of that new race, wouldn't we be artificially causing natural selection within humans?
[Kyrie] Think about it yourself.
The kids who have Yaiba's blood are excellent with no exception. They have the charisma to attract many humans, and all of their talents surpass those of a normal human...
The Blade Children who will become adults will definitely stand in a position to move this world into the future.
If the 2nd and 3rd plans start moving, there will only be more of these children, and what of the children's children?
If those kids have Yaiba's power too, Yaiba's influence will just get wider with no limits. And someday, humans will be ruled by those who have Yaiba's blood.
In that, there is one dreadful thing--...
Since the past, there were those who pointed this out... Yaiba sometimes had this aura around him, like he instinctively hated humans.
Most saw it as their imagination or a whim, and so they didn't see it as any problem, but what if that's Yaiba's real nature? What if his real nature moves to the children in the end?
From the point of view of Yaiba's strain, isn't the human race the same as the Neanderthals?
What do you think would happen if such a dictating existence became the ruling group?
[Eyes] A single ruler can't destroy the massive group of humans.
But if there were a large group of rules, what would happen? And what if that ruling also unites under the same will and instincts?
What would happen if Yaiba's blood ties the children so much?
With violence, more superior than humans, if there is such a united will that increases the number of rules, no matter how much they resist, humans will be eradicated.
Just like how the current human race exterminated the Neanderthals.
[Kyrie] Yaiba smiled at those who appealed to him and told them the story about the "Creator"'s whim, which Ruth-kun told you at the start--...
"My will is to exterminate the humans, so my blood will pass on that will."
"The adult Blade Children will move to eradicate humans."
"There is no avoiding it."
[Ayumu] Aniki and I are similar.
Although I don't want to admit it, aniki and I overlap each other in everything.
-- What a thing I said... all of the problems are... rebounding within me, myself?!
[Eyes] Yaiba's blood will surpass this generation and will keep moving with his will, using its power to remove humans from control-- and using the reproductive methods of this generation, will keep expanding like a bomb.
That was the way of the "Creator" to kill humans.
It was written in the Bible that the first human, Adam, had a rib missing. That one human filled the Earth in the end, and using his talents and violence, he destroyed many other creatures.
[Kyrie] Yaiba is also a being born with a missing rib. He possesses the symbol of the new ruler of earth.
Yaiba is going to fix the earth by filling it with his blood relatives. So he was a "Devil" in the humans' eyes.
[Eyes] And the first blood successors of that new Adam are the Blade Children.
They hold greater talents and violence than humans... They're the new "human race"...
They are the kids who were cursed with the blood of Yaiba and who obliterate humans.
[Ayumu] The new Adam who fell from above to fix the Earth... the polar existence to aniki.
Using modern technology, he flooded the world with his offspring... the blood of Yaiba fated to wipe out humans... "Blade Children" are?
... Meaning that your blood even now-- acts to destroy humans?
[Eyes] ... rest assured, I don't yet have that will. If I did, I wouldn't be talking with you like this.
... But--- but at my age, Mizushiro Yaiba was like a first-class God. And he had the eyes of a capable ruler. It seems he thought of himself as a person who would lead humans to a better future--...
It seems like Yaiba accepted the oracle at the age of 20.
At that time, he understood why he was born with so much power. And what he existed for.
And Yaiba awakened into a "Devil" as though a switch had been pressed.
[Kyrie] .... the Blade Children would have the same awakening when they become adults.
The children, full of genius and amongst humans up until then, would grow up with that charisma.
They would probably be appointed a respectable post as they'd be recognized as really skillful people.
If they were born with resentment toward humans, they would've been quickly thrown out of society.
That's why they stand as angels around humans. After they are judged within the society while hiding their true nature-- the blood of the "devil" awakens.
So no one can imagine that effect beforehand.
[Madoka] Troy's wooden horse...!
[Kyrie] Something like that.
The plan of the "Creator" is wonderful.
It brings serious damage like a long-lasting pathogen during its incubation period.
Like a type of cancer with late subjective symptoms which then attacks violently, it's beyond any help already.
If Yaiba was a "Devil" since he was a young child, he would've been quickly rejected from society, and there would've been a high chance he couldn't gain influence so easily.
[Eyes] But until the age of 20, he was an angel. A God.
So even if he changed into a "Devil" all of a sudden, Yaiba, who learned about society, hid it, and he didn't betray his surroundings' trust directly.
... If you investigate into it later... after the age of 20, Yaiba was pursuing a suitable death for humans in the shadows.
[Ayumu] ... Meaning right now... the Blade Children are still "safe"?
[Eyes] For the time being... yes.
That absolutely won't be so as years pass. Although they were few, there we some who had their switches pressed due to various external reasons.
You can also say that if Kanone makes one wrong move, the switch will be pressed for him.
[Kyrie] Do you know what the inexperienced Blade Children, with no proper power in society and who had their switch to "eradicate humans" pressed, do-- and how they pursue their fate?
[Ayumu] ... they have definitely been reduced to devils who kill people indiscriminately.
[Kyrie] It's terrible.
It seems that if the mind and body haven't grown to a certain level, they cannot adapt to the awakening of Yaiba's blood.
It's really just terrible.
But that way, it ends with minimal damage.
Don't you think we should kill the Blade Children? That we should exterminate them? If not, the roles will be reversed and they'll kill humans. We'll be exterminated.
[Madoka] But the one who said it was the "devil"... --- Yaiba himself, right? Isn't it suicide to speak of that to those who oppose him?
Can you believe something like that?
[Kyrie] The people of the opposing wave had the same question-... In reply, Yaiba laughed and answered "As a part of killing time, I just made one clear condition harder to attain".
It's exactly like he had the divine protection of some celestial being.
Yaiba was absolute.
[Eyes] It seems such an existence would think from time to time, "ah, it's boring."... something like that.
Wasn't it the same with Kiyotaka? He tried creating disadvantageous conditions just to pass the time.
[Kyrie] Making Ayumu-kun play the way he wanted, wasn't it nothing more than killing time?
[Ayumu] So... what happened with those who learned the truth?
[Kyrie] Isn't is obvious? They made a resistance in order to kill Yaiba and those dreadful Children.
That faction that was later known as the "hunters".
Even if Yaiba didn't say a thing, thanks to the abnormal result of the plan, the organization started splitting 3 ways.
The "hunters" claim that a quick cleanup of the dangerous existence of the plan and Yaiba is necessary.
The "watchers" claim that we should keep watching over Yaiba and the kids as it is al part of the experiment.
And the "savers" claim that we should keep on supporting Yaiba to the end and continue with the 2nd plan and so on.
...
In the end, it was all just Yaiba killing time.
The "hunters" immediately realized that Yaiba can't be killed by humans.
At first, the "hunters" aimed at the center of the problem, Yaiba, with all their power, but no matter what they did, they couldn't kill him.
At the time, Yaiba didn't say "kill me", but he confessed that to the "hunters". He let them try pointing a gun to his head on purpose.
Something mysterious protected Yaiba.
[Ayumu] Uniquely good fortune... the power to call chances... Aniki is completely--
[Kyrie] Kiyotaka is exactly the same, right?
But Ayumu-kun, although you almost died on many occasions, you're still alive.
If you wish it, everything can go well.
Am I wrong?
[Ayumu] What are you trying to say?
[Kyrie] Nothing in particular...
He was a "devil" in the shape of a human. And so Yaiba's ruling power grew stronger, and the 2nd plan of the "Blachil" initiated.
The "hunters" faction was cornered, and the situation was in despair.
The Blade Children, whom they were to kill, got stronger protection with Yaiba in the organization.
[Eyes] The humans started falling into the twilight.
But at that time, suddenly... one Japanese man who reached the age of 20 appeared.
That Japanese man-- that man easily killed Yaiba. He beat the "devil" who couldn't be killed by humans with no trouble.
Yaiba himself died with a face saying... "I can't believe it".
That's a suitable situation he should've predicted.
After all, for some reason Yaiba was born with one bone missing.
According to the Bible, Adam had one missing rib. Because from that, the woman who was needed to continue the human race, Eve, was created.
But Yaiba had spread his blood without any Eve, so why was it necessary for him to be missing a rib?
What needed to be created from that rib?
[Madoka] Narumi... Kiyotaka!
[Ayumu] No way, are you saying that missing rib corresponds with aniki!?
[Kyrie] That's how it is.
At the time, Yaiba was 36 years old and Kiyotaka was 20.
Eve descended as a "God" 16 years late.
But that Eve wasn't a woman to bear Adam's children, it was a man.
Therefore, those two couldn't bind to each other, and in the end they could only destroy each other as two polar opposites.
And like that, Eve killed Adam.
If it's something created from Adam, it isn't strange that it has the power to kill Adam, right?
[Ayumu] God and Devil, Adam and Eve, a polar definitely appeared?
What's that---.... it's like a composition... that was formally and intentionally put together by someone.
[Kyrie] The 20 year old Narumi Kiyotaka shot Yaiba and plunged the organization into chaos. And he also dissipated the influence that Yaiba had spread over the world.
It's not that Kiyotaka became a new ruler.
He was a "Destruction God" that even got rid of Yaiba's shadow.
[Eyes] Kiyotaka said that he received the oracle when he was 20 years old.
At that moment, he knew why he was born with so much power and what he existed for.
... That's what he said.
Kiyotaka had awakened as a "God" and he destroyed Yaiba and that ambition of his.
That was the will of another "Creator".
If there is a God and a Devil, good and evil, there should also be two "Creators" who oppose each other, one good and one evil.
One created Yaiba, who was to kill humans. The other created Kiyotaka using Yaiba's rib.
[Kyrie] It's like a chess game of creation and destruction. Played on board that is the entire world.
...
[Madoka] And what about Kiyotaka-san? With a power like that person--
[Kyrie] Kiyotaka couldn't surpass the destructive role that was rejected by the "Creator".
[Eyes] But...
Kiyotaka presented one hope within that situation.
You, who were 5 years old at the time, Ayumu Narumi.
A person who resembles Kiyotaka but is not Kiyotaka, a person who is a forgery of "God".
[Kyrie] But a person who holds "Godly" powers.
Even if Yaiba is dead, the God Kiyotaka is still alive, so there is no need for a God with the same powers.
If so, why did the "Creator" create Ayumu-kun?
Ayumu was created to save the Blade children------
-- a new God?
Posting transcripts of two important chapters here just so I don't have to read the manga every time for information like this.
Spoilers.
[Ayumu] I'm hesitating from where I should start asking, maybe from what you said before? If there exists a God-like person, then there exists a devil-like person to oppose him.
[Madoka] I've heard about it from Ayumu too.
Kiyotaka-san, who is "God", disappeared so he could fight that "devil"?
And the powers hidden within Ayumu are needed to beat that "devil"?
[Eyes] There would be no trouble if it were so simple.
The problem lies after the devil has been defeated.
Narumi Ayumu, do you believe in the "Creator"?
This world, this universe, the "Creator" who created everything that exists and existed... everything started from that whim.
[Ayumu] Hey. I have to star believing such fantasy?
[Kyrie] If you accept Kiyotaka as "God", you should acknowledge the "someone" who created him, right? You have to accept that to understand what happened.
You can think about it as just a fictional story, but that's what the "God" and the "devil" said.
[Madoka] Kiyotaka-san did?
[Kyrie] Yes.
[Eyes] Once upon a time, the "Creator" created this world, and he scattered many existences throughout. And finally, the "Creator" thought, "Let's try eradicating the humans".
Narumi Ayumu, the "Creator" heard ways of killing humans from this world-- what occurred to him?
[Ayumu] It's like the Bible's world... to drown them using heavy floods?
[Eyes] People won't be eliminated by such a thing, like they had the ark in the past.
Even if it takes time, it's a method that can wipe out humans.
With this method, the "Creator" dropped down to this world what we call the "devil".
Stronger than anything, higher than anything, an absolute existence that cannot be beaten by people.
[Ayumu] Stronger than anything... higher than anything... he had all the power... just like aniki--
[Eyes] The devil's name is Mizushiro Yaiba.
He was born to a Japanese couple. For some reason, he had a rib missing.
[Ayumu] A rib missing... that's the common feature of the Blade Children--
[Eyes] And that Mizushiro Yaiba is the father of all the Blade Children.
[Ayumu] ... what on earth does it mean? I don't really care about that "Creator" part. Why was only one person sent to destroy the humans? And there are dozens of Blade Children, right? How can one person be the father to so many kids?
[Eyes] Mizushiro Yaiba was...
[Kyrie] Born into this world 16 years before Narumi Kiyotaka.
Before he received his judgment, he grew up being called a genius kid, and with that trend he got stronger.
His ingenuity was displayed in everything, without fail, he always amazed his surroundings.
He grew up with some kind of charisma. Just like Narumi Kiyotaka who was born after him, right?
An absolute genius. An absolute presence. Everyone who knew Kiyotaka would've thought so about him.
He could even catch the world within his grasp.
... It's alright for you to think of Mizushiro Yaiba as the same as Narumi Kiyotaka, whom you know.
When Yaiba reached the age of 23, he founded the organization "Knights" and stood as its leader-- with his wit, Yaiba became a part of the management of the financial world while leaving his actions ambiguous. He enlarged the organization, leaving its outward appearance. In 3 years, the organization had immense influence.
When Yaiba turned 26, he managed to become a man who warped the world with a black curtain.
At the same time, he was called "God".
He was headed into a state of being worshipped, just like those who were superior in the financial world after more than 40 years there.
No matter what he did, as long as he had a plan, nothing went wrong for him. And from another direction, if you turned against him, you would surely be destroyed.
[Ayumu] I understand that Yaiba seemed as amazing as aniki. It certainly wouldn't be weird if aniki had the power to govern the world. But that part about destroying, it is different.
Even aniki, if he faced billions of people, there is no way he could've killed them all.
[Kyrie] That's right. Even if he tampered with the balance of nations' powers and created a world war, humans would survive. Even if it were Yaiba, I still doubt he could create such a situation with solely his clout.
The group known as humans is stubborn, but not that foolish.
That's why when Yaiba got to the age of 29, he made one project within the organization.
That was the "Blade Children Project".
[Madoka/Ayumu] "Blade Children Project"?
[Eyes] That's right. It was a devilish plan to mass produce Yaiba's children. Those who participated during that time called it the plan of a God.
[Kyrie] Artificial insemination, test tube babies... you've heard of such techniques of reproduction, right?
In our time, you can even create life in a cold laboratory. If you have the right amount of technique and funds-- it isn't that hard to mass produce the offspring of a certain person.
You can let a sperm and an egg cell fertilize in the right vessel and nourish it until it attains a human shape, and then keep taking care of it.
It's an absurd idea in terms of reasoning, because it's just "manufacturing" in huge amounts while each kid is missing affection and family.
But there was almost no resistance from the medical staff and genetic scholars who participated in the plan.
If you manage to recruit the egg cell donors who will become the mothers, you'll exceed the predicted number in no time.
A lot of people wanted Yaiba's lineage.
Now and in the past, the eugenics are firmly rooted. The kid of a strong person is strong. The kid of a wise person is wise.
There are many people who think that talent is strongly inherited, just like hair colour, eye colour and skin colour.
[Ayumu] Don't be foolish!
That's already being denied by genetics and statistics these days.
[Kyrie] Ara. Can you say such a thing? Narumi Kiyotaka's little brother!
Narumi Kiyotaka's little brother... your outer looks, your talents, your taste... and even the star circulation, they are all just like Kiyotaka's.
You can't deny the strong relation of blood, and you're not even Kiyotaka's kid. You are tied to Kiyotaka's blood as a little brother!
[Ayumu] That's true...
I feel the "power" of being connected to him as a "little brother"... not just me, but everyone around me...
[Kyrie] The "Blade Children Project" was explained as a genetic experiment at first.
To what level can the transcendental Yaiba's talent be inherited? Would the kids have the same talent as Yaiba? Or maybe Mizushiro Yaiba was the first generation of mutants?
Still, there were dreams who said such things...
If there were dozens of kids born with a part of Yaiba's power, the world would change. The intelligence would then accumulate and produce a better future for this planet.
That plan even looked like an experiment to artificially create exceptional people who would carry the world on their shoulders in the future.
All of the problems regarding practicality were sealed with Yaiba's influence. There were a total of 80 kids born from artificial insemination with Yaiba as their father.
Ruth-kun (Eyes), Kanone-kun Rio-chan and the others are part of those... that's why you guys were connected with the blood of your father and became "siblings".
[Eyes] That's right. Not only Kanone, but Rio and Asazuki and Ryoko are all my siblings. If we're talking about birthdays, I'm the youngest. But I can't get into the mood to call anyone but Kanone-kun big brother or sister.
The kids... as expected, there were those who opposed it, but there were many mothers who agreed it as proof their strong strain.
These children, as the name of the project were called "Yaiba's Children" (the Kanji for Yaiba is the same as Blade). The "Blade Children". At the time, that was a blessed name, but... afterwards, it became a cursed name.
[Kyrie] Under the control of the organization, these kids were brought up in their mothers' residence. And when they were 4 years old, they all exceeded normal kid's in every aspect. We knew they carried the right ambience for those who had succeeded Yaiba's blood.
Get it? Every one of those 80 kids?
[Ayumu] -- that is... really weird...
[Eyes] But as a result of that, there were people who were enraged--... that we had obtained "God's blood".
[Kyrie] Of course, people within the organization who felt terror because of the plan appeared. All the more... as talks about the 2nd and 3rd Blade Children Project began.
They came up with a solution and directly appealed that Yaiba, who lay at the root of the plan was a dangerous existence.
Do you know why such a plan of producing a large number of brilliant kids who resemble Mizushiro Yaiba is dangerous?
[Ayumu] Is it some kind of anthropological problem?
[Madoka] ... the homo sapiens who exterminated the Neanderthals...!
In the past, Kiyotaka-san really said something with such a weird meaning...
Our ancestors, the homo sapiens, have exterminated other primitive races as part of the process of evolution. There can't be more than one race. The current "humans" today have kept on living by killing all other races sharing the same "humans' base form".
Above all, the neanderthals were completely exterminated by the homo sapiens, who were more skilled than them at violence...!
[Kyrie] My, my, Kiyotaka-sama loves to leave clues about.
Well... that's the inevitable phenomenon of natural selection in the evolution process.
The neanderthals were the rules of the earth. But those who appeared afterwards, the homo sapiens who excelled in violence, caused their extinction within a couple thousands of years.
No matter how much a group boasts its prosperity, if a superior group unwilling to coexist appears, they'll be exterminated at once.
[Eyes] Part of the organization guessed at that.
Wouldn't that Mizushiro Yaiba be a new race that will lead to the destruction of humans?
If we accelerated the breeding of that new race, wouldn't we be artificially causing natural selection within humans?
[Kyrie] Think about it yourself.
The kids who have Yaiba's blood are excellent with no exception. They have the charisma to attract many humans, and all of their talents surpass those of a normal human...
The Blade Children who will become adults will definitely stand in a position to move this world into the future.
If the 2nd and 3rd plans start moving, there will only be more of these children, and what of the children's children?
If those kids have Yaiba's power too, Yaiba's influence will just get wider with no limits. And someday, humans will be ruled by those who have Yaiba's blood.
In that, there is one dreadful thing--...
Since the past, there were those who pointed this out... Yaiba sometimes had this aura around him, like he instinctively hated humans.
Most saw it as their imagination or a whim, and so they didn't see it as any problem, but what if that's Yaiba's real nature? What if his real nature moves to the children in the end?
From the point of view of Yaiba's strain, isn't the human race the same as the Neanderthals?
What do you think would happen if such a dictating existence became the ruling group?
[Eyes] A single ruler can't destroy the massive group of humans.
But if there were a large group of rules, what would happen? And what if that ruling also unites under the same will and instincts?
What would happen if Yaiba's blood ties the children so much?
With violence, more superior than humans, if there is such a united will that increases the number of rules, no matter how much they resist, humans will be eradicated.
Just like how the current human race exterminated the Neanderthals.
[Kyrie] Yaiba smiled at those who appealed to him and told them the story about the "Creator"'s whim, which Ruth-kun told you at the start--...
"My will is to exterminate the humans, so my blood will pass on that will."
"The adult Blade Children will move to eradicate humans."
"There is no avoiding it."
[Ayumu] Aniki and I are similar.
Although I don't want to admit it, aniki and I overlap each other in everything.
-- What a thing I said... all of the problems are... rebounding within me, myself?!
[Eyes] Yaiba's blood will surpass this generation and will keep moving with his will, using its power to remove humans from control-- and using the reproductive methods of this generation, will keep expanding like a bomb.
That was the way of the "Creator" to kill humans.
It was written in the Bible that the first human, Adam, had a rib missing. That one human filled the Earth in the end, and using his talents and violence, he destroyed many other creatures.
[Kyrie] Yaiba is also a being born with a missing rib. He possesses the symbol of the new ruler of earth.
Yaiba is going to fix the earth by filling it with his blood relatives. So he was a "Devil" in the humans' eyes.
[Eyes] And the first blood successors of that new Adam are the Blade Children.
They hold greater talents and violence than humans... They're the new "human race"...
They are the kids who were cursed with the blood of Yaiba and who obliterate humans.
[Ayumu] The new Adam who fell from above to fix the Earth... the polar existence to aniki.
Using modern technology, he flooded the world with his offspring... the blood of Yaiba fated to wipe out humans... "Blade Children" are?
... Meaning that your blood even now-- acts to destroy humans?
[Eyes] ... rest assured, I don't yet have that will. If I did, I wouldn't be talking with you like this.
... But--- but at my age, Mizushiro Yaiba was like a first-class God. And he had the eyes of a capable ruler. It seems he thought of himself as a person who would lead humans to a better future--...
It seems like Yaiba accepted the oracle at the age of 20.
At that time, he understood why he was born with so much power. And what he existed for.
And Yaiba awakened into a "Devil" as though a switch had been pressed.
[Kyrie] .... the Blade Children would have the same awakening when they become adults.
The children, full of genius and amongst humans up until then, would grow up with that charisma.
They would probably be appointed a respectable post as they'd be recognized as really skillful people.
If they were born with resentment toward humans, they would've been quickly thrown out of society.
That's why they stand as angels around humans. After they are judged within the society while hiding their true nature-- the blood of the "devil" awakens.
So no one can imagine that effect beforehand.
[Madoka] Troy's wooden horse...!
[Kyrie] Something like that.
The plan of the "Creator" is wonderful.
It brings serious damage like a long-lasting pathogen during its incubation period.
Like a type of cancer with late subjective symptoms which then attacks violently, it's beyond any help already.
If Yaiba was a "Devil" since he was a young child, he would've been quickly rejected from society, and there would've been a high chance he couldn't gain influence so easily.
[Eyes] But until the age of 20, he was an angel. A God.
So even if he changed into a "Devil" all of a sudden, Yaiba, who learned about society, hid it, and he didn't betray his surroundings' trust directly.
... If you investigate into it later... after the age of 20, Yaiba was pursuing a suitable death for humans in the shadows.
[Ayumu] ... Meaning right now... the Blade Children are still "safe"?
[Eyes] For the time being... yes.
That absolutely won't be so as years pass. Although they were few, there we some who had their switches pressed due to various external reasons.
You can also say that if Kanone makes one wrong move, the switch will be pressed for him.
[Kyrie] Do you know what the inexperienced Blade Children, with no proper power in society and who had their switch to "eradicate humans" pressed, do-- and how they pursue their fate?
[Ayumu] ... they have definitely been reduced to devils who kill people indiscriminately.
[Kyrie] It's terrible.
It seems that if the mind and body haven't grown to a certain level, they cannot adapt to the awakening of Yaiba's blood.
It's really just terrible.
But that way, it ends with minimal damage.
Don't you think we should kill the Blade Children? That we should exterminate them? If not, the roles will be reversed and they'll kill humans. We'll be exterminated.
[Madoka] But the one who said it was the "devil"... --- Yaiba himself, right? Isn't it suicide to speak of that to those who oppose him?
Can you believe something like that?
[Kyrie] The people of the opposing wave had the same question-... In reply, Yaiba laughed and answered "As a part of killing time, I just made one clear condition harder to attain".
It's exactly like he had the divine protection of some celestial being.
Yaiba was absolute.
[Eyes] It seems such an existence would think from time to time, "ah, it's boring."... something like that.
Wasn't it the same with Kiyotaka? He tried creating disadvantageous conditions just to pass the time.
[Kyrie] Making Ayumu-kun play the way he wanted, wasn't it nothing more than killing time?
[Ayumu] So... what happened with those who learned the truth?
[Kyrie] Isn't is obvious? They made a resistance in order to kill Yaiba and those dreadful Children.
That faction that was later known as the "hunters".
Even if Yaiba didn't say a thing, thanks to the abnormal result of the plan, the organization started splitting 3 ways.
The "hunters" claim that a quick cleanup of the dangerous existence of the plan and Yaiba is necessary.
The "watchers" claim that we should keep watching over Yaiba and the kids as it is al part of the experiment.
And the "savers" claim that we should keep on supporting Yaiba to the end and continue with the 2nd plan and so on.
...
In the end, it was all just Yaiba killing time.
The "hunters" immediately realized that Yaiba can't be killed by humans.
At first, the "hunters" aimed at the center of the problem, Yaiba, with all their power, but no matter what they did, they couldn't kill him.
At the time, Yaiba didn't say "kill me", but he confessed that to the "hunters". He let them try pointing a gun to his head on purpose.
Something mysterious protected Yaiba.
[Ayumu] Uniquely good fortune... the power to call chances... Aniki is completely--
[Kyrie] Kiyotaka is exactly the same, right?
But Ayumu-kun, although you almost died on many occasions, you're still alive.
If you wish it, everything can go well.
Am I wrong?
[Ayumu] What are you trying to say?
[Kyrie] Nothing in particular...
He was a "devil" in the shape of a human. And so Yaiba's ruling power grew stronger, and the 2nd plan of the "Blachil" initiated.
The "hunters" faction was cornered, and the situation was in despair.
The Blade Children, whom they were to kill, got stronger protection with Yaiba in the organization.
[Eyes] The humans started falling into the twilight.
But at that time, suddenly... one Japanese man who reached the age of 20 appeared.
That Japanese man-- that man easily killed Yaiba. He beat the "devil" who couldn't be killed by humans with no trouble.
Yaiba himself died with a face saying... "I can't believe it".
That's a suitable situation he should've predicted.
After all, for some reason Yaiba was born with one bone missing.
According to the Bible, Adam had one missing rib. Because from that, the woman who was needed to continue the human race, Eve, was created.
But Yaiba had spread his blood without any Eve, so why was it necessary for him to be missing a rib?
What needed to be created from that rib?
[Madoka] Narumi... Kiyotaka!
[Ayumu] No way, are you saying that missing rib corresponds with aniki!?
[Kyrie] That's how it is.
At the time, Yaiba was 36 years old and Kiyotaka was 20.
Eve descended as a "God" 16 years late.
But that Eve wasn't a woman to bear Adam's children, it was a man.
Therefore, those two couldn't bind to each other, and in the end they could only destroy each other as two polar opposites.
And like that, Eve killed Adam.
If it's something created from Adam, it isn't strange that it has the power to kill Adam, right?
[Ayumu] God and Devil, Adam and Eve, a polar definitely appeared?
What's that---.... it's like a composition... that was formally and intentionally put together by someone.
[Kyrie] The 20 year old Narumi Kiyotaka shot Yaiba and plunged the organization into chaos. And he also dissipated the influence that Yaiba had spread over the world.
It's not that Kiyotaka became a new ruler.
He was a "Destruction God" that even got rid of Yaiba's shadow.
[Eyes] Kiyotaka said that he received the oracle when he was 20 years old.
At that moment, he knew why he was born with so much power and what he existed for.
... That's what he said.
Kiyotaka had awakened as a "God" and he destroyed Yaiba and that ambition of his.
That was the will of another "Creator".
If there is a God and a Devil, good and evil, there should also be two "Creators" who oppose each other, one good and one evil.
One created Yaiba, who was to kill humans. The other created Kiyotaka using Yaiba's rib.
[Kyrie] It's like a chess game of creation and destruction. Played on board that is the entire world.
...
[Madoka] And what about Kiyotaka-san? With a power like that person--
[Kyrie] Kiyotaka couldn't surpass the destructive role that was rejected by the "Creator".
[Eyes] But...
Kiyotaka presented one hope within that situation.
You, who were 5 years old at the time, Ayumu Narumi.
A person who resembles Kiyotaka but is not Kiyotaka, a person who is a forgery of "God".
[Kyrie] But a person who holds "Godly" powers.
Even if Yaiba is dead, the God Kiyotaka is still alive, so there is no need for a God with the same powers.
If so, why did the "Creator" create Ayumu-kun?
Ayumu was created to save the Blade children------
-- a new God?