Episode 34: The Seventh Day
I was regretting it.
I should have told
Saeki my secret, no matter how he felt about it.
I should have told him
that Saburo Yamazaki was a dangerous murderer and to stay away from him.
Following Hosoya's
disappearance, Saeki also disappeared, and our company's name was picked up by
the media.
The company was forced
to close temporarily due to the large number of reporters.
I was also interviewed
by a TV crew, but I wore a mask and left in front of the cameras as if I was
trying to escape.
Even so, information
leaked out from somewhere, and a man claiming to be a magazine reporter even
came to my apartment.
I was indeed horrified
when he even asked the mother and daughter next door about my personality.
I immediately called
the Shimizu family to apologize for that.
I really wanted to
apologize in person, but I didn't know where or who was watching.
If the media found out that
Misa's father was also missing, things would get even more complicated.
So I decided to refrain
from contacting the Shimizu family for a while.
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It will be seven days
tomorrow since I killed my last person.
If I don't kill someone
by 9 p.m. tomorrow, I'll be dead.
But I had already made
up my mind who I would kill next.
Saburo Yamazaki - the
murderer who may have killed Hosoya-san and Saeki.
In this day and age,
it's not popular to take revenge, but Saeki had been my childhood friend since
nursery school.
He was a good guy,
although somewhat well-behaved.
You can't just kill him
and then leave it at that.
Yamazaki Saburo......I
will definitely kill you.
I mumbled to myself as
I laid on my bed staring at the ceiling.
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Early in the morning,
after making sure that no reporters were around, I left the room.
I said the incantation,
"Ngarince" closed my eyes, and thought of the face of Saburo
Yamazaki, whom I despised.
Then the image of
Saburo Yamazaki appeared behind my eyelids.
Ngarince is a
clairvoyant spell.
It is a spell that
consumes 6 MP and allows you to find out the current movements of anyone whose
name and face you know.
“Are you still
sleeping...”
Saburo Yamazaki is
currently sleeping soundly at home.
I can clearly see his
condition as if I were taking a picture of him.
I had already checked
the location of his house yesterday, so there was no problem.
Saburo Yamazaki seemed
to be living with his wife and children only two kilometers away from my
apartment.
He lives in a house
with a security camera at the entrance and a lot of gravel in the yard to
prevent thieves.
Perhaps he was afraid
that he would be targeted.
I went to a park near
Saburo Yamazaki's house.
I sat down on a bench
there and closed my eyes and looked for Saburo Yamazaki again.
Saburo Yamazaki, still
in his pajamas, walked his wife and child out the front door, then went to the
living room, turned on the TV and laid down on the sofa.
Apparently, he had no
work today.
I continued to watch
Saburo Yamazaki in the park for a while, keeping my eyes closed.
But there was no sign
of him going out at all.
I had planned to kill
him outside, but it looks like the plan was off.
The security cameras
would be a nuisance, but I could break into the house directly.
Now is the time to do
it, when his wife and children are out.
That's what I thought,
and I decided to take immediate action.
After leaving the park,
I walked around the road in front of the convenience store.
Since it was in the
countryside, I knew that there were no surveillance cameras, as long as I paid
attention to the security cameras at the convenience store.
I walked through the
gate with the nameplate [Yamazaki] on it and through the garden.
Since I had cast a
spell to make my footsteps stealthier, my footsteps did not make a sound even
when I walked on the gravel.
When I closed my eyes
again in front of the door, I saw that Saburo Yamazaki was currently dozing on
the sofa.
I knew it was now or
never.
I steeled myself and
slowly opened the front door.
I walked down the
hallway to the living room and found Saburo Yamazaki snoring on the sofa.
I took out the kitchen
knife I had hidden in my pocket and aimed it at the neck of the sleeping Saburo
Yamazaki.
Die!
I swung it down as hard
as I could.
DIE!!!
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