Leveling Murderer - Chapter 3

 Episode 3: Ijima Yuko

 

After finishing my breakfast, I went to the park where I was yesterday.

I walked around the park in the heavy rain with an umbrella.

As I expected, there was not a single person in the park.

 

I looked around the park to make sure there were no surveillance cameras and was relieved to see that there were none.

This way, the police would probably not be able to find out about me.

 

Finally, I headed to the spot where I killed the man yesterday.

 

“……eh”

 

The man's body was gone.

I looked down at the spot where the man had fallen, but there was no sign of him.

The heavy rain must have washed away all the blood I shed yesterday, as well as the blood of that man.

However, the stone I threw at the man ended up in the same place as yesterday.

 

Then where the hell did that man's body go?

 

“...... Ah, you!”

 

As I was struggling in my head in the heavy rain, a woman's high-pitched voice came into my ears.

 

My immediate reaction led me to turn around to see a blonde woman in t-shirt and sweatpants, holding a smartphone and umbrella, staring at me with her mouth half open.

 

The woman's eyes widened sharply.

“I knew it was you! Hey tell me where the hell is Shin-chan!?”

She throws down her umbrella and closes the distance between us.

 

“Eh, shi, Shin-chan......?”

“You must be the one behind this!”

The woman thrust her phone in front of my face, and there was a video of me being punched and kicked by Shinichi Gotoda.

It also shows me in tears, begging for help.

 

Come to think of it, the guy yesterday seemed to be filming me on his phone as I was desperately apologizing.

 

“I can't get in touch with Shin since he sent this video to me yesterday! You must've done something to Shin-chan!”

The woman comes closer and closer to me.

 

“No, no, I don’t.......”

“Where is Shin-chan!”

“That—”

“Answer me or I'll kill you!”

In the heavy rain, the woman threw away the phone she was holding and pulled out a butterfly knife from her pocket.

 

“Aah!”

The woman thrusted her knife into my face regardless of whether I said anything or not, without a second thought.

“Kugh..”

 

I reacted instantly and dodged to the side, but the woman's knife grazed my temple.

Blood splattered on the ground.

 

“Are you out of your mind!”

“Where did you take Shin-chan!?”

The woman swings her knife at me, her eyes red with pupils dilated.

 

“Oh no, is she on drugs or something?”

She's completely out of her mind.

I don't think she will listen to me.

 

I went to grab the woman's wrist with both hands, prepared to be stabbed in the hand at this point.

“Gah...”

 

Despite the cut on my hand, I grabbed the woman's wrist firmly.

“Let go of me!”

“Ugh!”

“Oh, you...... you bitch!”

The woman tried to shake off my hand and started to lash out with her whole body, like a broken washing machine.

 

“Let me go, you fuck!......”

“Let me go!”

 

And the next thing you know—

 

Thud.

"Uh......!?"

 

After a struggle, the knife was thrust into the woman's left breast.

“Gah….y-you..!”

 

The woman collapses to the ground, falling to her knees in the heavy rain.

She grasps my ankle weakly as she looks at me with resentment in her eyes.

 

However, the woman seemed to have run out of steam, and dropped her face into a puddle of water on the ground.

 

Immediately after—

 

Tetetete te te tte ~n!

A funny sound effect played in my head as it did with Shinichi Gotoda.

 

Then a flat voice with a machine-like tone echoed in my head.

{Onizuka Yamato gained one level for killing Ijima Yuko.}

{Max HP increased by 3, Max MP increased by 1, Strength increased by 2, Armor increased by 2, and Speed increased by 1.}

 

{Onizuka Yamato has learned the spell of Kudoge. }

I had no choice but to do that. ...... I would have been killed if I didn't.

I look down at the woman slumped on the ground, my voice trembling as I try to convince myself.

 

After a while, I looked around, but there was no one in the park under the heavy rain.

I was standing in the rain, trying to figure out what to do about this situation.

 

Would self-defense work?

But considering the fact that she is a woman, and the difference in her physical strength, it could still be suspected of being excessive self-defense.......

 

As I was deep in thought in the rain, I saw something I couldn't believe.

The woman's corpse suddenly started to become transparent, and then she disappeared completely in front of me.

 

"!? I-It disappeared !?"

 

The knife and blood that had been stuck in the woman's chest disappeared completely.

All that was left was the umbrella and phone that the woman had thrown away.

 

“W-What is ......”

What does this mean?

 

Is this how the man from yesterday disappeared, too...?

Is that why they never made a case......?

 

There are still many things I don't know, but I do know some things.

 

There are no surveillance cameras in this park.

No witnesses last time or this time. No bodies either.

So isn't this a ...... perfect crime.

 

“Hahaha ...”

I naturally laughed.

 

I was surprised to find that even though I had just killed someone, I didn't feel the slightest sense of guilt, even though the feeling of having killed someone was still on my hands.

In fact, I even felt my mood lifting.

“Have I gone crazy......?”

Or was this the kind of person I had always been?

I look at my hands and ask myself the same question as the rain gets heavier.

 

and—

 

“I wonder”

I heard a child-like voice coming from right behind me.

 

“What!? Who is it!?”

I turned around in a panic.

 

“Me? I'm Akira Ishigami, twelve years old, and I'm in elementary school. But as a murderer, I have more experience than you oni-san.”

A boy holding an umbrella looked up at me with a smirk.

 

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