Owari No Seraph-Ichinose Guren, 16-sai no Catastrophe Volume 5 & 6

Chapter 2

Time flew at an amazing speed for the few days after. Father's body was allowed to be brought back to the ancestral home in Aichi for the funeral.

<Mikado no Tsuki> had the practice of natural burial. Therefore, Guren had his father's head reattached to the body before the burial in the ancestral grave.

A grand funeral took place next.

It took an entire week.

By then, everyone had received information about Guren becoming the new Head. Representatives from the prominent Houses supporting <Mikado no Tsuki> had always turned to father for greetings. But this time round, they had turned their attention to Guren.

Perhaps everyone had seen the footage of the scene at the execution ground. Father's execution and Guren's silhouette.

Everyone saw the– allowing them to see that unbecoming sight of his, everybody promised to tirelessly contribute to the progress of <Mikado no Tsuki> by dedicating their all. It could be said that the organization was much more united.

On the other hand, under such a situation, how would <Mikado no Tsuki> progress from here? Every time he was being asked that, he would ponder hard at the question.

To have his father being killed that way and to have himself being unable to do anything, what exactly should he do?

"....."

However, this train of thought could not last forever. As he had to receive the visitors, he did not get much sleep those few days.

"......Ha."

Guren left the mortuary and returned home to get a little bit of rest. Once he entered, he saw the courtyard-styled living room father liked and sat down.

The clothes he was wearing used to be what father wore too.

Whenever there was a grand ceremony, father would wear this. He never expected to be the one donning it this quickly.

He sat cross-legged in front of the coffee table and surveyed the living room with a dazed look. This garden was father's creation too. It always felt like whenever father had nothing to settle, he would be present in this living room or garden.

Guren received beginner swordsmanship lessons from father for the first time in this garden too.

He recalled what happened in the past. Father was stringent during training, always saying,

"You have talent."

Guren, who was being praised and felt very pleased, started obsessing over swordsmanship.

He never noticed this before. But now that he looked at it again, he felt that the garden was very beautiful.

The sun had started to set.

It should be around 5pm.

Just then, from the corners of his vision, his two attendants poked their heads out from the door.

"About that, Guren-sama."

"Guren-sama."

Those were Sayuri and Shigure. Lethargy washed over both their faces. They watched the execution too.

When they saw him hugging his father's corpse, both of them bawled in melancholy. [note: ME TOO]

"We're sorry that we could not be beside you."

"We could not protect you, very sorry about that."

They repeated again and again.

They probably did not rest much afterwards. After delivering the corpse back to Aichi, the two of them rushed back and forth in preparation of the funeral.