Episode 29: Saeki's Confession
[fat man clerk at
bookstore in front of station]
[two couples in room
332 at Saison Mercades]
[the thickly-dressed
employee with glasses at the cell phone store next to my office]
[the lady who walks in
front of my apartment every morning at five o'clock with her big dog].
......etc.
I kept sending the
information about the bad guys I detected to Hosoya-san on line.
It seems that
Hosoya-san is using the weekends and holidays to kill people, and the bad guys
I've told her about have all disappeared by the end of the week.
I don't know how she
does it, but she's still working at the desk facing me, so I guess there's no
problem.
Of course, I didn't
just give out information.
I was given information
about killers by Hosoya-san and tried to stay away from the areas where killers
appeared as much as possible, and like Hosoya-san, I decided to set my days off
as bad guy hunting days and dared to go out and kill those bad guys I detected
there.
One month after forming
an alliance with Hosoya-san, my level had reached 10.
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One day, during
lunchtime, Saeki called me to the roof.
When I arrived at the
rooftop, Saeki was already there, standing with his back to me.
“What's wrong? Calling
me out to a place like this?”
When I called out to
him, Saeki turned around with an unusually serious look on his face.
“No...... I have
something important to tell you.”
“What's that? That
sounds scary.”
I was wondering if he
was going to ask me for money.
“I've been thinking
that I should tell you for a long time, but when I try to, I can't.......”
Saeki began to talk to
himself.
“Yamato...... I knew about
Yamato’s feelings, yet I ......”
So just what are you
trying to say? I tried to smile and ask him back, but he didn't seem to be in a
mood for teasing.
I read the atmosphere
and decided to listen in silence.
Saeki glanced at me as
if he was looking at my face.
“I'm actually hiding
something from you.......”
He moved his mouth in a
way that made it difficult to say.
And then, as if he had
made up his mind, he stared into my eyes.
“I'm actually dating
...... Hosoya-senpai!”
He shouted.
Eh?
“Yamato, I'm sorry I
betrayed you!”
“...... Yeah, no, it's
okay.”
“Eh...... that’s
okay......? Aren't you gonna
be mad?”
“Angry? Me? Not at all.”
If I'm Hosoya's father,
then I'm not in a position to interfere with her social life.
“But you told me you
liked Hosoya-senpai before, didn't you?”
“Ah~ ......is that it?
I don't even like Hosoya-san anymore.”
I used to be interested
in her, but now that she's almost killed me, I've lost all interest in her.
“What's happening......
I was ready to get punched.”
Saeki slumped to the
concrete ground as if he had fainted.
“Sorry. I thought I
told you.”
“You didn’t...... hah,
I was scared out of my wits!”
Saeki now lies on his
back.
Looking down at Saeki,
I thought that I had done something wrong, but at the same time, I was somewhat
convinced that what I was doing was somehow equivalent.
Hmmm, I had no idea
that Hosoya-san's boyfriend was Saeki, by the way.
I guess I have bad
intuition too.
Obviouss
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