真性悪魔【事柄】
True Demon [Circumstances]
EXTRA世界にあっても、悪魔の概念は人類にとって最大の障害として扱われる,
Even in the world of Extra, the concept of Demons (悪魔の概念, akuma no gainen) is by humanity treated (扱われる, atsukawareru) as the greatest of obstacles (最大の障害, saidai no shougai);
神が全知全能であるのなら、悪魔は人知無能の存在。
so as God is to omniscience and omnipotence (全知全能, zenchi zenou), so as demons as an existence are to mortal levels of awareness and impotence (人知無能, Jinchi Munou, lit. "human intellect and impotence").
手の届く範囲にありながら決して理解できない淵（ふち）だ。
They are as an abyss (淵, fuchi) that lies within arm's reach (手の届く範囲, te no todoku han'i. lit. "the boundary of an arm's reach"), yet decisively (決して, keshite) beyond comprehension (理解できない, rikai-dekinai, lit. "incomprehensible").
staynightにおいて悪魔は偽物しか存在せず、
Distinct from those demons from staynight, which exist only as imitations (偽物, nisemono),
本物───受肉した悪魔に人間は太刀打ちできないとされる。
the real thing -- Enfleshed Demons (受肉した悪魔, juniku-shita akuma, lit. "incarnated Demon") are that with which humans are incapable of competing (太刀打ちできない, tachi-uchi-dekinai, lit. "incapable of crossing swords").
※受肉した悪魔を退散させた例は一件のみ記録されているが、それはまた別の話
※There is in record only a single instance in which an Enfleshed Demon was forced to disperse (退散, taisan, lit. "disperse / retreat"), but that's a different story.
たいてい悪魔は憑くものとされ、人間の体を用いて受肉しようと働くが、
In general, demons are existences that take possession (憑く, tsuku), utilizing the corpus of a human to incarnate (受肉, juniku) and take action,
苗床になる人間の精神が耐えられず、周囲に魔をまき散らして自壊するのが通例。
but in the event the psyche (精神, seishin) of the human host (苗床になる人間, naedoko ni naru ningen, lit. "the human that becomes the seed-bed") cannot withstand the strain, it is commonplace (通例, tsuurei, lit. "common example") for self-annihilation (自壊, jikai) to occur, dispersing the essence of the demon into the vicinity.
中には自らの業によって人間ではなくなってしまい、結果的に悪魔のカテゴリーに含まれる人間もいるが、
There exist also humans who by way of their own acts (業, gō, lit. 'sins; worldly preoccupations / fixations / absorptions; karma') are subsumed unto the category of Demons as a result of losing their humanity;
これは魔人化と呼ばれるもので真性悪魔ではない。
but these creatures that are said to have become Fiends (魔人, Majin) cannot be considered True Demons.
EXTRA世界において、悪魔憑きであれ、自らの業で変化したものであれ、
In the world of Extra -- whether by way of Demonic possession, or in the circumstance that one's own actions bring about a transformation --
真性悪魔を生み出した現象は２０３０年現在、一つの成功例もない。
the phenomenon whereby a True Demon is birthed unto the world has, as of present day in 2030, not been brought successful fruition even once.
悪魔、魔人化、と銘打ってはいるが、その在り方は異なる文明圏、異なる惑星に住まう高次元生命体と変わらない。
Though the classifications of "Demons" and "Fiends" do exist, their manner of existence is in essence indistinguishable from that of a higher-order lifeform (高次元生命体, kou-jigen seimeitai, lit. "higher-dimension lifeform") that inhabits a different sphere of civilization (異なる文明圏, koto-naru bunmei-ken) upon a different planet (異なる惑星, koto-naru wakusei).
なにしろこの認識宇宙における『人』ではなくなったのだから。
In sum, said existences can, per the recognition of the Universe of Awareness (認識宇宙, ninshiki-uchuu, lit. 'the universe derived of observation / perception'), no longer be discerned as "human."
その在り方は二十世紀に流行した、とある創作神話における邪神の在り方に近い。
Their existences would approximate to that of the cosmic horrors (邪神, jashin, lit. 'evil god') of a certain fictitious Mythos popular in the 20th century.
ＣＣＣの真ルートで変生《へんじょう》したある人物はこの域に達しながら、些細なミスによって神の座から転落した。
In the True Route of CCC, a certain individual that has undergone transmigration did indeed manage to reach this realm, but owing to a slight mistake, they were capsized from the Seat of Divinity (神の座).
