Chapter 157 (1/2)

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Translator: Pink Tea

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『To Mai, I a before you From: By Brother』

One day,only that simple note behind

Yes, sudden, like with a turn of a breaker

『It’s later than I expected… At this rate, I’ to be late I’ve just been warned by Brother, I cannot afford to be late… Wait, this ive Brother an excuse to scold me and then as a form of atonement… N-no, it’s pointless, I can’t be late to school on purpose』

One and a half year ago

Spring has ended and the rainy season was right around the corner

Beneath the sky that had a too large part of it covered in thin clouds to be called clear

That was the day when I was in a hurry after saving the collapsed old lady, the situation that can be called the very cliche of cliches of excuses for lateness

『Nice, I inata, that I used in the club activities, I was al the stairs an intense blinding light burned my eyes

Even now I re froht, I saw a shi+ning ic circle at the spot where I fell fro that people nearby were calling out to me worried, I lost consciousness

『…Eh?』

And the next ti oing on

Being told that father and mother have fallen into the sea in an accident and were ed into a

All of it seemed fake, like reflections on soap bubbles

『…It’s a lie』

I returned to an e that I actually ca chair at father’s study and grabbingwith a sprayer pot plants, thatat them in a daze

At brother’s rooa that brother had read

I tried clothes that brother wore

I wrapped

『…It’s a lie』

In the e room, I re-watched anime that brother liked when he was a kid

The story about the adventures of a bit absent- brother and his reliable little sister at school in a fantasy world

It’s was popular ere little and since I was a sickly child and wasn’t able to go outside a lot, brother would often play make pretend of that anime with me

While I called hiedhim from 『Bro』to 『Brother』

『…It’s a lie』

Because brother said that『When Mai will grow up and get healthy let’s play this outside』

Because when I asked『Will you always play with onna have big adventures together, as brother and sister』

I worked hard and trained inata since the girl fro it

I tried so hard at irl

I troubled brother by usually saying s, and fro spoiled

In ways Brother would not notice I was shutting down girls that tried to get close to him

『…It’s a lie』

Even when people around called irl from the anime『Exactly so, because little sister should cherish her brother』and I did not feel embarrassed at all

Because he also cherished me just as he proclai he would accoive ot invited for afor Brother he would always sirl for the ani brother』

『…It’s a lie』

As I wasone after another

And as they were bursting, ray that was reflected in them

And thus my world became riddled with holes

It turned into a world where one wrong step would send me to the bottom of the pitch dark void

Bleak room, a room devoid of human’s warmth

E entirely

As if I returned to the ti in bed

It’s hard to breathe, like I aht

Scary, frightening, terrifying, dreadful

That time, I woke up and brother had disappeared so at home and went outside where I was struck by a car and lost consciousness When I woke up again around me were father, mother, and brother

Which was such relief forhit by a car

But this tio to leave this place

Because even if I were to rise up and tried to go so but a black abyss aroundwhere would break and crush me

Thus, I, unable to cry, also beca that anirew tired I would fall asleep right at the spot as if my batteries had suddenly died

For the first few days, I had no energy neither to eat or bath nor to change clothes

After all, I had no one to show that to Healthy food, daily treatment in bath, an adult-like appearance that brother liked so much Since brother wasn’t here I saw no reason to bother with any of that

Before long I would only get up for a toilet and would spendback and forth between dreams and reality until eventually I lost track of days

As if trying to dissolve the boundary between dreaan to repeat shallow sleep with inco

『I wonder if worried Brother and others will be beside me the next time I wake up』

My vision turned dark several times per day and that is as on ht

——————Brother is not here anyway, just how nice it would be if I just died in ue tothat dark ti I still had so left for ?!』

『We were, worried…』

『Ouch, ouchouch, you two, it hurts』

When I woke up I was in an unknown hospital and the first thing I sahen I got up was e, usually strong-willed, with a distinct dislike for shady things, Miyuki

Daughter of a prosperous faly bubbly personality but actually was quite stubborn, Satomi

Miyuki slapped my cheek with full force and Satimo firmly pinched the skin onhard and seriously angry

I didn’t understand as going on

I could be only puzzled by their actions

However, withat me

『Whaaa, hyaaa, sto, ooooo, AaAAAAAAAA…!!!』

Like so

We cried and cried and cried until our tears and voices dried up, until we released everything we had on our hearts

It was already dusk when three of us fell asleep on the hospital’s bed

As I regained clarity, probably due to intravenous therapy, I heard that since I shut myself inside the house the two started to worry and decided to check onthat was opened all the time, they found me, unconscious and weakened

When ambulance transported me I had mild malnutrition and severe dehydration

And concerned about ained consciousness

『First of all, you are the boldest one a up now If you have ti on ways to find your beloved brother Where is your usual『Thots lusting for my Brother should just die』proactivity』

『Yes, yes Even we had to face that aze plenty of ti the hospital I began searching for the truth behind the disappearance case, no, for Brother’s whereabouts I asked around the net to contribute infor if there were any new develop information with Brother’s friend – Yuuto-san

A lot of things didn’t go sed but because Miyuki and Satoh such a world

Hence, I once again s can one day suddenly disappear, that’s so I have already experienced once

The incident happened a fewthe disappearance case

When shocking disappearance case started to become a hot topic for public discussion, a full set of classified information on people related to the case was leaked by police along with the fantasy-like video taken during the incident

Following that, strange ruan to spread and as public order deteriorated ca ic circles that appeared in that fantasy-like video made me remember what I saw around the tiic circle appeared before h the places I visited and the actions I took on that day

It was shortly before lunch when I heard screaers

A part of the incident that later will be called as『Mass slasher incident』turned the peaceful shopping mall into the crucible of turh school boy then straddling him proceed to thrust the knife deeply into him over and over and over, and so ere swayed by the crowd of people terrified by that violent crime scene and became separated from each other

That was the last time I saw Miyuki

Later I was able to rejoin only with Satomi, no matter how many times we called on Miyuki’s mobile phone she never picked up

She didn’t return home either, we reported it to the police but because they were busy dealing with cases of rando they did not conduct a proper search for her

Neither I nor Satoh we searched for her all over the place

And so, half a year later without finding anything

As usual, ere searching for the clues on Miyuki disappearance