Volume 2 Chapter 20 (1/2)
With the powdered one from the hot water supply room, Mizuki and her brothers stayed in the inner the candy they found in desks Splitting the very last of the food between her brothers, Mizuki lost energy to the point where even waking up was troublesome
Shaking her, her brother has a hard ti her up With hazy eyes, she looks at Takashi+ Moving her gaze in the direction he was pointing, she saw athere Reflexively she starts to scream, but as if to cut her off, thehe isn’t anyone suspicious
To those words, Mizuki stuttered If she looked closely at his face, he wasn’t someone she remembered He was someone else He had black hair, and on his face, which lacked characteristics, there were a pair of sharp eyes As if observing so his bag on the floor, the man asked, “Want to eat?”
After that, the situation constantly changed With food no longer a proble this ti her body on the couch, hazily looking at her brothers, her spirit see
In order to get food, she has to ‘co’ Whether that fact is reality or not, she doesn’t know
If they were to be abandoned now, they would certainly starve With that i on her e for food However, her heart couldn’t agree with her decision
(Why……)
The first time, she ended it quickly out of desperation The second ti it all happen on a film, she lost her sense of reality
(Why a?)
In the ers wrapped around his hard ‘thing’, Mizuki is consuht
(Even if I was the one who suggested it…)
In order to get food, she had no choice but to do it If she had rejected hi at him, she understood He wasn’t very obsessed with Mizuki She didn’t feel his gaze stick to her like the other’s did
If it was ashe had felt on a daily basis The gazes of her flattering juniors, or of her childhood friend, Mizuki instinctively kne to dodge them
(TL: Poor A-kun, that friend zone, my opinion of Mizuki has somewhat fallen)
However, that gaze which looked at her as if she orthless……
If faced by that lean man’s vicious eyes and asked whether to starve or please him, she would have probably refused She would have been overcome with fear and ran away instinctively
(That kind of…)
Approached with that cold and cruel deal, what had been wounded was her pride However, in order to keep her and her brothers alive, she couldn’t refuse it There was no fear There was only the anger of having no choice but to receive the help
Suddenly a question popped into her head
(Was it really not safe outside?)
That thought had sprouted in a corner of her radually spread
(Why can that person so easily coerous, how is he able to gather that much food?)
In the first place, the ate Everyone that had been shut up in this office were nervous about the situation Anxious, in despair, stir crazy; she couldn’t feel these from him at all
(Haven’t the mobs already disappeared?)
(Wasn’t he just hiding that fact, and trickingthis for him?)
The ht with all the traffic)
(But it’s weird For there to be zo has cal for us to return……? If they are worried, calling around…… Waiting for us to come home………)
Deep in thought, Mizuki’s pupils slowly spread out
(What a here…?)
As it spun around and around in her head, that thought grew
After one down in the elevator, Mizuki returned to the roo, she picks it up She packs the food hidden at the botto over her shoulder She looks back at her brothers, also holding their bags They had al
(It’ll be fine… Even that person was able to leave so easily…)
“…Well, shall we return?”
To Mizuki’s words, Masaru looks up with a worried expression
“We’re finally going back?”
“Yep Mo for us you know Probably”
Mizuki nods Her brothers s she hadn’t seen them do in a while They climb over the barricade and face the elevator She presses a button, calling the elevator back up; and watches the overhead display as it counts up from the first floor to the third
(It’ll be okay……… It’ll definitely…… be okay………)
The elevator doors open and the three of theet in
She presses the button for floor one, and the elevator begins its decent Feeling the floating feeling, characteristic of all elevators, she watches the display
3F, 2F, 1F
Gradually, her vision narrows, and her surroundings begin to darken to the point where all she can see are the floor numbers
(Why did I bring food? If it was safe outside, I shouldn’t need so like that I should be able to safely walk home, take a shower, eat a meal, and with that it would all be over)
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(Had I thought that so would happen outside?)
Her breathing becaoosebumps
Mistake
It felt like she was ht now, she could still turn back… As if ied into the depths of hell, Mizuki prayed
(That’s wrong… It has to be safe………… please……)
The doors to the first floor open
Nothing was there There was only the backyard isle spread before them