ABYSS┇Sea of Trickling ■ | Chapter 6

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Season: Winter (in the past)
Scenario writer: Akira
Characters (in order of appearance): Kanata, Madara


(At the same time. At a certain religious group’s facility known by the name “The Abode of God”)

Kanata: bored~ bored, bored~ bored~

so bored, kanata feels he will melt.

……what are you doing, mikejima?

god is bored, you know?

 

Madara: —Did you perhaps call for my humble self, oh sacred God we revere.


Kanata: wha…!?


Madara: Juuuust kidding, haha! Hey, hey, you sure look bored, God!


Kanata: mikejima.

mikejima~...... ♪

—wah, oof?


Madara: You okay!? You sure fall a lot, God. What are you, a little kid?


Kanata: ugh…it’s because kanata’s not yet used to this place.

he doesn’t know where anything is, so he ended up tripping and falling.

ow……kanata hit his forehead. it stings…


Madara: If you’re a god, then bear with it.


Kanata: mm……it is as you say, mikejima. i will bear with it.

hic, hic… but it hurts… it might be impossible to bear.


Madara: Ahh~ look, you’re starting to bleed. Don’t move, ‘kay? I’ll disinfect it.

I also fight with my parents—no, bad guys—and get hurt, so I always make sure to carry some sort of ointment to at least treat simple wounds.


Kanata: wounds? are you okay?

the one who fell was kanata, yet you look like you’re the one who’s hurting, mikejima.

did your mother and father get mad at you again?


Madara: Ah~ Wellll, they still nag at me about what happened the other day.

Stuff like, “What were you thinking—of all things, taking the being you’re supposed to protect, hand-in-hand into the outside world,” or something.

And apparently my parents were berated by the other believers, too. The bottom line is, it’s because their reputations were tarnished that they’re full of complaints.

That’s probably what they really mean when they tell me not to cause trouble for others.


Kanata: there, there.


Madara: Are you listening to what I’m saying, God?

Don’t pet me. The antiseptic on God’s hands is dripping down and stinging my eyes.


Kanata: sorry. but you looked like you were in pain, so.

don’t cry…you didn’t do anything wrong, mikejima.

the one in the wrong here is all kanata. it’s all because kanata wanted to meet mother.


Madara: I’m not crying, and you ended up not being able to meet your mom so that was a mess.

Nothing went well. The mission was a total failure.

But I wonder why the body disappeared……?


Kanata: kanata doesn’t know. the chief priest, in other words, father, said it was the abyss’ doing.


Madara: I don’t know if it’s ABYSS or Ebisu¹ or what, but does something like that really exist in this world?


Kanata: that—kanata also doesn’t know. kanata is not yet a god, so he doesn’t know anything.


Madara: Hmph. Whatever, you say that I’m not in the wrong, but I obviously am?

I mean, that’s why I got reprimanded. ‘Cause I broke what’s called the taboo.


Kanata: taboo…… why is it that kanata mustn’t go outside?

because he fell and got hurt? is that why everyone is worried about kanata?


Madara: Isn’t it ‘cause the mystique would start to fade? God is a faraway being, always behind a screen or something to hide them.

And it’s because you can’t see them, your imagination begins to broaden, and you wind up thinking of them as a very sacred being.

The believers need to be misguided in order to preserve this religion.

That’s why you, who will one day become a god, must stay hidden away from the world.

Otherwise if people were to meet you in person, they’d find out that you’re a blockhead and an idiot of a child just like me.


Kanata: blockhead? idiot? what does that mean?


Madara: It means cute and pretty.


Kanata: i see… then that’s good, eheheh ♪


Madara: Mhm~ God is reeeeally an idiot, isn’t he! A funny idiot!


Kanata: praise kanata more, revere him! eheheh ♪


Madara: Haha. …Alllllright, done with your treatment. It was hard to treat—your long and flowy hair was in the way as usual, God.


Kanata: mm, kanata also thinks it’s in the way.

kanata ends up eating his own hair while sleeping, and there are times where he can no longer breathe. troublesome. kanata will end up dying if he can’t breathe.


Madara: I’ll secretly cut your hair for you one of these days.


Kanata: no. no haircuts. also no taking off the eye cover.

it’s forbidden. if you go against what’s forbidden, you will get in trouble again.

kanata doesn’t want mikejima to get in trouble, to feel hurt or sad.


Madara: I see. Thanks.

But, yeah, as I thought, I just can’t leave you here like this.


Kanata: kanata is satisfied. bored, but mikejima comes when kanata is bored.

but it’s because of that that kanata was so scared he would never be able to see mikejima again.


Madara: For a god, you suuure are a spoiled child. You’ll be lonely if I’m gone?


Kanata: of course.


Madara: I see… But the reality is, it’s forbidden for people to normally meet a god like this. I snuck out of cram school today, too.

I mean, I already understand everything perfectly, so to have to study lower elementary school material is extremely boring. So that’s why I came here to play.


Kanata: w-will everything be alright? you broke another taboo?

you’ll get in trouble, you know?


Madara: It’s fine as long as they don’t find out. Hahaha.


Kanata: once kanata becomes a god, he will change many regulations.

kanata will make it so that even if mikejima and kanata get along, no one will get mad.

so, wait for kanata. it’ll be fine.

just hold on for a little bit longer.


Madara: Okay, then I’ll be waiting without much expectation.


Kanata: mhm, believe in me.

it will all be alright, okay? because god doesn’t lie.


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1. Ebisu is a Japanese god of luck and commerce, particularly concerning the sea. He is also the patron god of fishermen.