Vol 1 Chapter 7 (1/2)
Ch 7- What is a Yandere?
Chapter 7
”Hiroto......Hiroto......please don't......cry......alright?” A heavily panting Yamazaki managed to catch up with me, his body bent down as he tried to gasp in deep breaths of air to catch up his breath.
Seeing my home which had been burnt charcoal black by the fire, I felt as if my heart was torn into several pieces, and tears kept dripping from my eyes, like a string of beads being suddenly cut, resulting in the tears sliding down my face, whenever i thought of my parent's benevolent faces, my heart aches to the point that I had difficulty breathing.
(TL: reminder, i try to do constructive tl- sticking as close to what the author phrased amap, i can rearrange some sentences; but i try not to, in order to preserve the meaning. the above ^ is a good example of the author describing hiroto crying, weird but ...yeah.)
After seeing the police officer that was standing guard at the entrance of the house, I walked towards him.
”A murder case had happened here earlier, the police are still conducting ongoing investigations, hence please refrain from intruding onto the crime scene.” That police officer stretched out his left arm to halt me from entering.
”My name is Tanigawa Hiroto, and I am x.x.xX's son.”
(TL: x.x.xX is the father's name, I omitted it for now due to laziness to tl it)
”What, Tanigawa Hiroto, please wait here, I'll go get the taichou...... Taichou! I found the sole remaining survivor of the Tanigawa family.” (TL: LIAR!! YOU DIDNT FIND HIM, HE APPROACHED YOU FFS) That officer standing guard ran into the house while shouting.
(Note: Taichou = captain, in this context it means police capt)
After a few minutes, an extremely huge and muscular man came out with the police officer; eyes appraising Hiroto, while saying:
”You are Tanigawa Hiroto? I'm the taichou in charge of this investigation, you can call me Sakurai-taichou. Where were you when this crime happened? You had any witnesses?”
”It wasn't me, yesterday I was with the fatty beside me.” I replied with an expressionless face.
”*whistles* You have quite the temper aren't you. I know that you didn't do it, it's just standard procedural questions. Look at you, a skinny build without much muscle on your body....even if you used your entire body strength, you probably couldn't slice off a human body's limbs in one try.” The huge muscular Sakurai-taichou glanced at Yamazaki as he replied Hiroto.
(TL: >_>. . . . . . . you fail as a police taichou)
”Initially this case was thought to be a robbery-kidnapping with murder intention, as after the robbers entered the house, it's possible that they may have kidnapped or knocked your nee-san unconscious, thereafter when your tou and kaa-san returned home earlier than usual, firstly your tou-san's leg's joint's got hacked off in a single blow, and finally both of their deaths was established to be because their necks were struck by some sort of long blade weapon, another single blow too; when the robber finished looting the house of valuables, he ran off, with your nee-san.”
”Can let me have a look inside?”
”Go on in.”
”Thanks.” Without looking at the officer, I walked past him, followed by Yamazaki, into the charred-black remains of the house. With every step I took, realizaion that the house seemed to be familiar, yet strangerish, causing tears to well up in my already reddened sore eyes.... and after i caught sig
ht of 2 charcoal-burnt corpses lying on the floor, I immediately burst into tears, crying despondently while lying on the corpses.
After crying till my voice was lost, I begun to a.n.a.lyze the dead corpses and indeed discovered that one of them had a broken leg.
”Hiroto, please don't cry any more.... be strong, for the sake of your parents, you must find the murderer and bring him to justice, otou-san and okaa-san probably wouldn't want you to cry here forever too.... your nee-san may be also at the hands of the kidnappers, you must save her.”
After hearing these, I came to an abrupt start: He's right, I must be strong, I must find the murderer.
”I get it.”
At this moment, Sakurai-taichou came in.