Chapter 6 The Last Lullaby

"Ah," came another scream, as a serpentine shadow streaked through the sky

　　"Don't! When I regain my Shadow-class strength and transform into a human, I'll be much more handsome than these two boys," Ogao said as he slowly crawled over to me.

　　"Oh~ yeah? Then come back to me when you're at the Shadow level! Maybe I'll think about it" Lilith said with a teasing face

　　"But now tell us how we can get back."

　　"Well, there's actually an ancient city ruins not far from here, there's a teleportation array there, I'll take you there now, but first wake this kid up" Ogao Snake Tail said as he pointed at Naruto

　　"What am I---" he finally woke up when each gave Naruto a slap.

　　Rukia told Naruto the beginnings of what happened, and Naruto apologized, and with that, the four-man, one-snake team headed for the ruins of the ancient city.

　　On the way, Lilith and the others learned that in this area is sealed, only the existence of a life form of Little Tail, can imagine for human beings incomparably long three thousand years, Little Tail is more what lonely, lonely. For the beginning of the small tail of the 'disturbance', the crowd expressed understanding, and as for why the small tail will be left here, even he himself does not remember.

　　As for this ancient city, Ogao said that it had been included in the sealing circle about a year ago. That is to say, the sealing circle is growing, which is amazing, who has such a huge power?

　　Soon after Lilith and the others reached the ruins of the ancient city.

　　"Is this it?" Lilith asked, looking at the crumbling assortment of buildings

　　"Eh, be careful everyone, I've only been here once too" Kio said to the crowd

　　"Do you hear anything," Lilith said, as if she heard singing.

　　"No," the crowd looked at Lilith quizzically

　　"Oh yeah, let's go to the teleportation array" Lilith definitely heard it, and thanks to getting the ability of fire, both her hearing and eyesight were many times more powerful than a normal martial artist.

　　Lilith followed Kouga to the teleportation array, but to their dismay, it no longer had enough energy. The group discussed the situation and decided to split up to find items that could replace the energy.

　　Lilith, who couldn't let go of that song, searched a little bit in the direction where the song came from.

　　"A secret door?" With a strange sound coming from the floor tiles, Lilith flipped them open.

　　The song grew louder, and Lilith was sure the source of the sound was not far away.

　　The purple moonlight of Wraith Purgatory shone down on a young girl who looked so sad, half sitting on the ground with her arms wrapped around a skeleton that had been weathered for who knows how long or how long, though the corners of her mouth smiled, though she sang a song.

　　"Nah, are you okay?" Lilith asked tentatively at the slightly eerie sight of this

　　The young girl ignored Lilith and still sang, Lilith carefully stepped forward, but to Lilith's surprise, the young girl was a mannequin! A doll that was barely much different from a real person. ''The object glowing at the heart position is his energy source, right? Maybe it can be used as energy for the teleportation array!'' Lilith thought without thinking

　　"Would you like to hear my story?" The doll girl said to Lilith with a mechanical swing of her head

　　Looking into that expectant gaze, Lilith didn't refuse.

　　"Have you ever heard of Trull, the God's Forsaken Land?"

　　"Well, I've heard a little bit about it."

　　"The people who lived in this city were trying to escape the harsh climate and strong sunlight, they kept digging into the ground to create underground dwellings, and as they dug for years and years, they dug up one thing" the young girl gently touched her chest

　　"In Trull, which was full of despair and suffering and already headed for extinction, they made, if only for a moment, dolls that could take their minds off of their pain, dolls that could dance and sing songs, and for hundreds of years afterward, the city became extinct, and no one came to listen to the songs any more, and there was only one mannequin all alone... ----- "

　　"Nah, you want to hear me sing?" The maiden said to a traveler passing through Trull

　　The traveler, not expecting a human presence in this place, tries to rape the young girl, but his life ends when he realizes that it's a mannequin.

　　The bloodstained doll girl wanders tirelessly through the abandoned city.

　　"Nah, do you want to hear me sing?" Asking again and again, killing again and again, crippled the already incomplete human soul of the doll girl.

　　One day, a teenager came to the abandoned city of Trull, to the city that was the end of the wanderings of the lonely and

　　"Little boy, want to hear a song?" , if this teenager can't accept her, she'll kill him, just like before -----

　　"Want to hear a song, little boy? , dolls are made by humans, and activities for humans are the reason for the existence of dolls.

　　'Please, let me sing!' The puppet girl thought in her mind

　　"Um, can you really sing for me? No one has ever done that for me before" whispered the teenager.

　　"My name is Ska, nah, big sister, sing for me!" The teenager said excitedly

　　"And so the little boy slept peacefully.

　　Gasping flames in the ashes one by two

　　Floating bubbles of adoring faces

　　Thousands of dreams have fallen to earth

　　In the night when the silver pupils are tugging.

　　You were born in a world of splendor

　　Even if hundreds of millions of years have left countless prayers in the dust.

　　I'll still keep praying.

　　Please be sure to look at this child

　　Kiss marks on loving hands."

　　In the days that followed, the doll girl and the teenager lived together ------

　　"Hatsune, you look so much prettier when you're dressed up" Cas said

　　"Hatsune?"

　　"Um, that's your name, can I call you that" Cass brushed through Hatsune's hair looking a little sheepish

　　"Uh-huh."

　　"In the decades that followed, Cass lived with me ----- but human lifespan is limited, after a hundred years, Cass also reached the end of his life, we made a deal that when Cass left the human world, he would personally help me end my life" Hatsune said slowly

　　"Cass didn't make it in the end, so here I am singing nonstop, waiting for that moment to come"

　　Lilith had left tears in her eyes at some point, looking through the mist of water at the skeleton Hatsune held in her arms.

　　"Eh, keep your promise oh" Lilith said herself not knowing why she had to say it anyhow and turned to leave the place.

　　"Cass, this is the last lullaby, so listen carefully."

　　Lacrimosadiesilla

　　quaresurgetexfavilla

　　judicandushomoreus.

　　Huicergoparce, Deus.

　　pieJesu, Domine!

　　judicandushomoreus.

　　Huicergoparce, Deus.

　　pieJesu, Domine!

　　Lilith's sat on the steps not far away and listened quietly, it wasn't a love song but it was full of love.

　　The song came to a screeching halt, waking up Lilith, who darted over to where Hatsune had

　　"I... we ---- will always..." said Hatsune as she took her 'heart' out herself.

　　"Hatsune I like you, always have always liked you!" Hatsune looked at the upper words on the 'heart' and tears, which are supposed to be exclusive to humans, appeared from Hatsune's eyes.