Apocalypse Witch: To the Strongests of an Age of Plenty
Episode 15's

Note: Gold leaves are in separate packaging. Sprinkle on it to enjoy the crisp!

"Are gold leaf really crunchy?" grumbling Utagai Karuta while reading Japanese snack packaging.

A small plastic bag contains a thin sheet of sparkling gold. There's only about a little or two. Instead of being a single folding sheet, it is even smaller in size than a katsuobushi cut. It may look more like a powder than a leaf.

They've bought this on the black market.

They used such stores rather than official ones due to the defeat influence of Problem Solvers. The spear of light was not the only one who died in London that day.

The giant swordswoman also had it.

The Student Council president had successfully defeated the person who controlled the world's industry.

Simply put, the woman runs a giant multipurpose factory that can make anything if you send out a request by email. For a typical company, everything that leads to those emails is far more important than production infrastructure. In other words, the value of intellectual property such as design and plans has soared. They started using analog microfilm as a security measure against hackers, that has led to the deployment of business-oriented banks that specialize in safe deposit boxes for those microfilms and companies that call armored cars as easily as motorcycle couriers.

Then the whole system collapsed overnight.

Companies around the world are losing all-purpose factories, but they are unable to set up their own production infrastructure quickly. They cannot fulfill the orders they receive. They all had to build their own factories in a hurry, but they needed money to pay for it. They are forced to sell all sorts of goods: their buildings, their product designs, even humans in the form of dismissals.

The chaos is unlikely to end anytime soon.

Empty store shelves and food and daily necessities sold on the black market are priced high. It has gotten to the point of being mentioned that you need a knife or a gun to start bidding.

(But this won't last forever.)

Karuta observed the situation with a cold look in his eyes.

(Humans always find a way to return everything to normal. And at this point, I'm used to being hated, so you can't use them as hostages, Problem Solving.)

Meanwhile, there was Crystal Girl Aine.

She seemed to be completely unconcerned about the human excitement and sadness as she was already leaning forward without considering the hem of her transparent white dress.

"Taste up! Quickly give me permission to eat it! Pant, pant, ahh, woof, woof !!"

"It's increasingly looking like some kind of dangerous withdrawal symptom, so are you sure it's safe to let you take it!?"

His eyes swirled and saliva dripped from the corner of his mouth. She looks so fragile that it breaks if you hold her too tightly, but it only makes her look even more inappropriate when she stares so intensely at the powdery content inside the tiny plastic. The mysterious crystal girl did not rely on the name of the god to accurately calculate the collision of energies from the Original Crystal Embryo at the center of the earth and the supernatural forces that descended from outer space, the source said, but at times like this, he made her look like a bad person.

It was the student Council President Omotesandou Kyouka who smiled gently.

He held a small plate filled with mille-crepe that was not a convenience store product. Karuta doesn't know the name of the tea on the table either and he doubts he will remember it even if he tells him.

“Yes geez. But if you refuse to give it to her now, I'm sure she'll get angry and make the RV explode like a jack-in-the-box.”

"He'd asked for gold powder and gold leaf before, but it didn't really change the flavor, did it?" marika asked with her hair combed back.

The girl was lying on a sofa bed with a pile of cheap snacks around her. When it came time for each of them to choose their own snacks, he was the only one who paid no attention to luxury items and chose quantity over quality.

"Not talking about the taste and nutrition that humans need is not important to me. I need gold, pure gold. By adding a wire thinner than a hair inside my silicon semiconductor body, I can get taller!!"

"I don't really understand, but it's disgusting."

How did this happen?

They needed time to analyze the smartphone they had taken from the corpse of the giant sword-wielding woman, so they had nothing else to talk about other than Problem Solver who had never appeared in the media. With no tasks to do, they eventually decided to buy some food.

So where did the money come from?

Very homely.

"It turns out Problem Solver is really rich, isn't it?"

"Very impressive. Can you see now why all the powerful nations want to call themselves the legal guardians despite the position being so annoying?"

Basically, they have stolen more than just cell phones from giant-switched women.

They had taken lives without leaving room to argue, they had examined corpses and stolen all valuables, and they had bought some luxury items with the money to rest comfortably. Although Karuta is reluctant, he cannot deny that they are actually living a life of revenge at this point.

The Lean Crystal Girl Aine was the least moral (because she was not a human) and now she was very excited. Was he fantasizing or was his long silver hair twitching?

“Sacri-sama, until when will you tease me? If you don't give it right away, I'll enter a time of rebellion.”

“I don't think that's how we used the rebellion.”

“Do any people really get to say that they used their rebellious period like the 'should'?” ask Kyouka

“Does that mean even our gentle President of OSIS has experienced a period of rebellion?” ask Marika, whose interest is somewhat off the core of the conversation.

Meanwhile, Karuta first took out the main yokan from the small wooden box and placed it on a small plate on the side table. Once it was ready, he only needed to open a small plastic bag and sprinkle golden leaves on it.

“Guk, woof, woof!!”

“Do not give any confidence at all!!”

Not eating a snack while everyone is eating will be psychologically excruciating. He watches the unreliable Aine in spinny-eye mode carefully while picking up a small bag of gold sheets with both hands. Although it is in the form of sheet gold, it is almost no different from the packets of soy sauce or Worcester sauce that are included in the bento of the grocery store. Slowly, he tore the top off using a scratch beside him.

Yet....

"Oh, fuck. It's on my finger. I should have tapped it to get the solution down to the bottom before drinking."

"!?"

He was about to clean his finger with his trousers, but Aine's tightly clasped hands froze him first.

It was Aine, the girl who was very fond of gold.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait!! You'll ruin it, you'll ruin it, you'll ruin it, you'll ruin it!!!"

"Ah."

"Don't suck my finger like that! Stop it, Aine! I'll do it right, okay!?"

"I'm not willing to throw it away for nothing."

His screams produced nothing. He actually used all of his strength to try to break free, but his wrist was stuck safer than at the base of the guillotine. Meanwhile, the boy's fingertips were at the mercy of Aine's extremely warm mouth. It felt like Aine was using her tongue to clean the bottom of her fingers, the top of her nails, and even under her nails.

The look of happiness and love on her face as she consumed the golden leaf made her feel strange. He looked very human, but the consumption of this metal was an undeniable abnormality. While it is true that humans need to consume iron and zinc, they will not start chewing screws or nails. Aine, on the other hand, might eat a screw or a pure gold nail if given one.

It was impossible for the pale crystal woman to show signs of rejection like metal poisoning.

Meanwhile, the strangeness was all accentuated by how her movements were just like that of a cute girl.

Something was stirring in his heart. The sight before him greatly worried him.

"Fwah... I will only release you with it, but pure gold is an extremely precious rare metal. If you don't take care of her properly, I'll never forgive you even if you're my own Sacri-sama."

"You know that means killing yourself slowly, don't you?"

Finally his wrist was free from his strong grip, but it seemed he had to be more careful starting from now on. In fact, he was somewhat worried that the Trouble Solver might throw a pure golden kaltrap on the battlefield to confuse him.

"But this material seems difficult to use because it is even thinner than katsuobushi. If I just sprinkle it as usual, some parts might fall off the plate."

"Aine announced, 'From now on, I will hold my breath until you complete your goal.'"

"You don't have to do that. Besides, I just need to do it away from my face, you don't need to keep looking at me like that!!"

As the discussion progressed, Utagai Karuta moved the small bag as attractive as possible towards the yokan before sprinkling the contents.

However, a demon was bothering him.

“Mh. Oh, I got a rare planarian character! Hey, hey! Look, Karuta! These things can develop infinitely if you keep cutting them! And finding one in your pet snack is said to boost your financial luck, so..ah..

He feels something is wrong with this.

And his feelings proved accurate.

“Achoo!!!!!!"

A strong wind suddenly blew while he was doing a very sensitive job. The glistening golden leaves should have fallen right on the yokan, yet everything was blown in the wrong direction.

Specifically, the entire body of the boy carefully controlled the bag.

Sorry, it's a picture from a novel and there's no way I'm rewriting the picture. Can you give me a paragraph from the novel so I can rewrite the paragraph in English? Thank ye.

Karuta begins to glitter all over his body, though it may look more like a human discotheque ball than the atmosphere featured in the shoujo manga vision.

Sure, what is your question?

What happened to his fingertips when he had only slightly touched the golden leaf before?

Sorry, I can not find the context or original sentence of the given quote. Can you give me a full sentence?

"Wait on! Stop, Aine! This is a..."

“Sacri-samaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”

As soon as that happened a very sticky story.

Moments earlier, Karuta tried to ignore the reality before him by noting that the Student Council President cleverly took his tea cup from the side table and backed off.