Chapter 1.08 (1/2)

Chapter 1.08

Beyond Another Darkness V1C1 Part 8

Before I could confirm, Mayuzumi continued speaking.

“But since she had distorted the impossible, her body was unable to successfully return. And instead returned in pieces. Because of this, something that should’ve been over with a single death ended up turning into such a commotion. But here’s the problem, Odagiri-kun, what does the body wish to do after recovering its soul?”

She looked towards me as if urging me to complete the question. But it was honestly beyond me. I raised my hands indicating that I surrender, and Mayuzumi smiled grimly.

“Yamas.h.i.+ta Yukiko wishes to kill herself.”

“What?”

Her body wants to recover her soul just so she can kill herself?

“It’s why our client for this case wants to kill Yamas.h.i.+ta Yukiko herself. Since she was always following Yamas.h.i.+ta Yukiko around she could easily tell that her sister was starting to hate her. Then around that time her sister committed a huge mistake at her workplace. Naturally, she would also hear about the situation and that’s when she realized. This was the perfect opportunity, this was her chance to make it appear as if her sister had committed suicide out of depression.”

An image of Kazue surfaced within my mind.

A woman that appeared to be hiding something behind her gentle smile.

A woman who was hiding her true malicious personality.

“Our client had followed Yamas.h.i.+ta Yukiko and struck her on the head when she was bending down to pick up her coin. After that she dragged Yamas.h.i.+ta Yukiko to the top of this building and tossed her down, making it appear like a suicide. Our client’s plan was rather successful, you could even say it was successful beyond her expectations.”

That’s right, it normally wouldn’t have been so easy.

If all the conditions hadn’t been so perfectly aligned, it wouldn’t have been deemed a suicide.

“The matters surrounding her workplace, breaking up with her lover, an unsent will, and the critical decisive condition. Why did Yamas.h.i.+ta Yukiko come to an abandoned building complex?”

Why? She had no reasons yet she still came to this place.

“That’s because she was thinking of committing suicide here.”

A coin dropped to the ground with a loud “clink”. With a hollow expression in her eyes, Yukiko once again bent down.

“Her little sister had only quickened her death, but in the end she didn’t die. She wasn’t able to accept her own death so a distorted situation like this happened instead. Yamas.h.i.+ta Yukiko’s body had disappeared from the hospital wanting to return here. But because the soul itself doesn’t realize it already lost its physical body, the body has nothing to guide it and was unable to successfully return. So in other words, she failed.”

Mayuzumi gave a sigh and shook her head.

“By the way……this was done by “him”. He is someone who only helps those that he finds “interesting”……but no matter, it’s impossible to confirm whether he actually was here at this point. Just like you back then, remember?”

I felt breathless upon hearing her ask me that. A sharp pain ran through my stomach and I bent over to endure a sudden urge to vomit. My heart began pounding rapidly and the sound of rain surfaced within my ears.

I tried calming myself while gripping my stomach, but the hallucinating sounds of rain wouldn’t disappear. As my vision started to blur, I heard the sound of Mayuzumi’s voice.

“My mistake, just pretend I didn’t say anything, how could you ever forget.”

She made a slight hand movement. Her snow white hand waving like a sor

t of b.u.t.terfly. I slowly stood up while remaining silent. Trying to ignore the previous unsettling question not wanting her to realize my weakness.

“I wanted to ask something.”

“Please go ahead, you’re free to ask as many questions as you like. Questions are important after all. Since no matter how meaningless the question is it at least will still have some value.”

“Why wasn’t she able to successfully die? Even if she died unknowingly, I don’t think a person who wanted to commit suicide would care that much.”

Regardless of being killed or committing suicide, in the end both lead to death. But Mayuzumi shook her head with a smile.

“Well let me ask you, Odagiri-kun, would you want to pa.s.s on while you were still thirsty? If it were me I would want to pa.s.s on eating chocolate.”

My mind began automatically processing the question.

If it were me what would I do? I would want to pa.s.s on while smoking in my own shabby but cozy apartment. I don’t really care for something like chocolate though.

That aside, if I were to see a certain “someone” with their red paper umbrella beside me, I couldn’t die even if I actually wanted to die.

But in that case…

On a summer afternoon, between one or two during one of the hottest time of the day, and being thirsty to the point of having to buy a drink from a vending machine.

Putting a twenty yen coin in first and then placing in a hundred only to have it spat back out at you. And in the midst of fuming over unable to buy a refres.h.i.+ng drink and bending over to pick up the coin, your consciousness suddenly goes blank.

“Correct, in the end it’s all just because she wasn’t able to get her drink.”

For just that simple of a reason?

With a twirl of her umbrella, Mayuzumi took out a chocolate bar from her pouch and tore it open with her mouth. She took a bite and then continued.

“Just when she was thinking of killing herself of her own will, she was knocked out and at the worst possible time too. It would be strange if she was actually able to pa.s.s on.”

So she wasn’t able to pa.s.s on for such a reason.