Episode 8 - Convenience Store
On my way home from
work, I was walking along a dark street at night when I saw a girl in a school
uniform, probably a high school girl, walking ahead of me, illuminated by the
light from a night lamp.
The time is 7:00 pm.
“Isn't it scary alone
... so late?”
I was worried about the
girl who I had nothing to do with.
“Even for a guy like
me, it's a little creepy.......”
The girl walking in
front of me glanced back at me as if she had noticed my footsteps.
Then she quickly turned
around and started to walk faster.
Huh?
Could it be that I'm
being flagged ......?
I didn't mean to offend
her at all, it was just that we happened to be going in the same direction, but
maybe she thought I was suspicious because I was wearing a mask.
I slowed down a bit and
distanced myself from the girl.
After a while, the girl
disappeared from my view.
I made sure no one was
around.
“...... if I don't find
and kill a bad guy in the next six days.......”
I muttered to myself in
the dark.
A murderer must kill
someone within a week or he will die.
If Akira's words were
true, I only had six days left to live.
The only way to find
out for sure is through my own death, so I have no choice but to kill.
I can't kill a good
person, so if I had to do it, it would be a bad person.
With this in mind, I
spent the day observing others as I walked around the city, but I couldn't find
anyone so evil that they deserved to die.
I noticed a man walking
around smoking a cigarette, and a young man sitting on a senior seat in the
train, but they were not really the kind of bad people that deserved to be
killed.
“What should I do ...”
As I was thinking about
it, I found myself in front of a convenience store near my apartment.
I paused my thoughts
and walked into the convenience store as if lured by the bright lights to get
my lunch.
And then...
“What? What the hell?”
A girl standing in line
at the cash register shouted out when she saw me.
“...... Eh? Me?”
“Yes, that's right. Y-You
were following me, weren't you?”
When I looked closely
at the face of the frightened girl, I saw that she was Misa, the daughter of
Shimizu-san who lived next door.
“No, no, wait a minute.
It's a misunderstanding. It's me, Onizuka, who lives next door.”
I hurriedly took off my
mask and pointed to my face to explain to Misa-chan.
I don't want to be
treated like a pervert in front of other customers.
“We met once when you were
moving in, and it was just a coincidence that we ended up in this convenience
store.”
“Oh, Onizuka-san ......?”
Misa rolled her eyes
and then collapsed to the floor as if her whole body had lost its strength.
“You're Onizuka-san
right...... I thought you were a pervert.......”
“Miss, are you okay? Do
you want me to call the police?”
A male clerk came
running up to Misa.
The way the clerk and
the other customers looked at me was like they were looking at a suspicious
person.
Give me a break......
I'm a regular customer at this convenience store.
“Oh, I'm sorry, it's
okay. I'm sorry for shouting out, it was my mistake, I'm sorry.”
Misa sat down on the
floor and bowed her head to the people around her.
“This is someone I
know, so it's fine.”
“Oh, I see......”
Misa-chan told the
clerk, and then the clerk went back inside the checkout counter with an expression
that was neither convinced nor unconvinced.
The customers finally
stopped looking at me suspiciously after hearing Misa-chan's explanation.
“Here, can you stand?”
It seems that I'm
partly responsible for this situation, so I hold out my hand to Misa-chan.
“Oh, sorry .......”
Misa grabbed my hand
and stood up slowly.
And.
“I'm sorry about
earlier. I was so surprised.”
She bowed her head
deeply.
“It's my fault for
wearing the mask, though I'm the one who's more surprised.”
I almost ended up in
trouble with the police as a pervert.
It would have been too
pathetic to be caught for molestation when something like murder wasn't caught.
“I'm really really
sorry.”
“No, it's okay now.”
Misa continued to lower
her head to the point that I felt terrible, so I decided to change the subject.
“By the way, you went
to the aquarium yesterday, did you have fun?”
“Oh, yes. You heard it
from my mother, right? I really enjoyed the aquarium.”
“Yes. Did you enjoy the
dolphin show?”
“Yes. The rain had stopped,
so I was able to watch it with my mother.”
“I see. That's great.”
As if the gloomy
expression on her face from earlier had been a lie, Misa looked up at me with
sparkling eyes when I mentioned the aquarium.
She looks like she's
solid on the outside, but on the inside she's probably more childish than I
thought.
I felt that way as I
watched Misa talking innocently.
next victim incoming
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