Episode 11: The Shimizu Family
As usual, I stopped at
a convenience store on the way home to buy a box lunch.
I walked up the outside
stairs of my apartment, plastic bag in my hands.
“Akie, I know you're in
there!”
A strange middle-aged
man was ranting and screaming, banging wildly on the front door of Mr.
Shimizu's room.
He was tall. He seemed
to be nearly 190 centimeters tall.
This guy makes eye
contact with me.
“What are you looking
at? Hah!”
He shouted at me.
“Nothing, I live
there.......”
“Then stop looking at
me and get going!”
“Yeah, thanks.......”
I bowed my head and
walked behind the man who smelled of alcohol and went into my room.
“You're bothering the
neighbors.”
“I knew you were in
there! Misa is there too,
right! Hey Misa, it's your
father!”
From what I can hear,
the man in the hallway seems to be Shimizu-san's ex-husband, that is, Misa's
father.
“Hurry up and open the
door, or I will keep making a scene! Everyone
in the neighborhood, Akie Shimizu who lives here is a terrible woman who took
my daughter Misa away from me! She's
a slut who broke up with me and immediately switched to another man!”
Then there was a
clattering sound.
“Don't be ridiculous.
I'm so embarrassed, come in.”
Apparently, Shimizu-san
had given in and opened the front door.
“You should have done
that from the beginning, you annoying bitch!”
“Don't be loud.”
The man walks into the
room.
I knew I shouldn't
have, but I held my breath and listened to the rest of the conversation coming
from the next room.
“Where's the man?”
“What are you talking
about? There is no man.”
“If there wasn't, why
would you break up with me?”
“It's because you
raised your hand against me and Misa.”
“Stop lying.”
I can hear the argument
between Shimizu-san and the man without having to listen.
I gulped down some
water in the pitch black room.
“You're still drinking,
aren't you? You said you'd quit drinking, but you didn't.”
“Shut up!”
Thud. Rattle, rattle,
rattle.
After the dull sound, I
heard something scattered on the floor.
“Mom!”
Misa's scream reaches
my ears.
“Stop it, Dad, just leave.”
“Misa...... even you
talk to your father like that, hah!”
Don.
I heard the sound of
something hard hitting the wall in my room.
“No, don't, it
hurts.......”
“Misa, if you continue
to reject me, I'll, I'll ......!”
Don.
Another loud noise came
through the wall.
That was the limit.
I ran out of my room
and opened the front door of Shimizu-san's house.
“!?”
What I saw was
Shimizu-san lying on the floor, bleeding from her arms, and a man who seemed to
be her husband pushing Misa-chan against the wall and strangling her neck with
both hands.
“Ah? You from earlier”
“..O-Oh, Oni..zuka…sa..n......”
Misa groaned in pain.
Tears were flowing out
of her hazy eyes.
“Stop”
I grabbed the man's arm
and tried to pull him away from Misa-chan.
But...
“Stay out of it!”
The man's elbow struck
me in the temple.
I almost fainted for a
moment, but I leaned against the table and managed to regain my position
without falling.
Although my level of
skill has improved after killing two people, the difference in height between
me and the man is about 20 centimeters, and the difference in weight is
probably about 40 kilograms. There is no way I can do it by force.
“Misa, what is your
relationship with this man?”
“..ah, it's .......”
The man strengthened
his grip on her.
This is bad, at this
rate, Misa will really be killed.
I have to do something.
Then, at that moment.
Zub.
Before I knew it,
Shimizu-san had gotten up and stabbed a kitchen knife into the man's back.
“A-Akie ... you..”
The man let go of
Misa-chan and slowly turned to face Shimizu-san.
Misa-chan was released
and fell down on the floor with drool dripping from her mouth.
The man now reached out
to grab Shimizu-san by the neck.
Shimizu-san froze in a
stunned position after stabbing the man.
“I-I… kill.. you.......”
When the man put his trembling
hands on Shimizu-san's neck.
“... wah!”
I pushed the knife that
was stuck in the man's back even deeper.
It was not a thoughtful
action. My body moved on it’s own.
“Aarghh ...!”
I'm not familiar with
the human body, so I don't know much about it, but my thrust must have pierced
some kind of organ, and the man fell on his side, on the floor, coughing up
blood.
“M..Mom ...”
Shimizu-san, who came
back to her senses after being called by Misa-chan, immediately rushed over to
Misa-chan and they hugged each other.
“Misa”
“Mom”
In the midst of such a
mother-daughter moment—
Tete te te te tte ~n!
The sound of the
level-up was going on in my head.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA!
ReplyDeleteThat te te ne nen sound was funny
tq for the chapter
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