Chapter 4 Nanami and One Ending (2/2)

My brain couldn’t even process to check whether the aunt and uncle of Nanami are okay. My whole body was trembling, and I couldn’t even breathe properly.

It was as if my brain, heart, my whole body was trying its hardest to deny this reality.

“A-Anyways…I have to call an ambula—” (Hikaru)

Just when I had regained a bit of calm and took out my smartphone, a voice rang from my back and the feeling of something hot being driven into my body happened almost at the same time.

“…Gah?! W-What’s…this?” (Hikaru)

My vision is dyed bright red.

Heat began to spread from my back as if my blood was flowing in reverse. My consciousness flickered as if matching the rhythm of my heart.

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My back was burning hot.

It was as if a scorching iron pipe had been driven into me.

“Good grief. Don’t scare me. You are…Kurose, was it? Were you dating? Sorry for killing her.”

When I look back, there was a man around the same age as me.

A guy from the same school that I have seen before.

We have never been in the same class. A guy I don’t remember the name of.

I think he was the kind of guy that would go ‘yay yay’ outside the groups of popular people.

Even though he is from a different class, he would sometimes come to our class, so I somewhat remember his face.

The guy that was lamenting exaggeratedly in a loud voice about not being chosen.

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Why did he kill Nanami…?

Why does he know my name…?

“Well, I will be disappearing to a parallel world. Just consider yourself unlucky and give up, Kurose. You are going to be dying together with your beloved Nanami-chan, so it is okay, right?”

The man was laughing hysterically with a pale face, but only his eyes were shining dangerously, and he by no means looked normal.

“W-Why…?” (Hikaru)

I wrung out what little strength I had left and spoke.

Why did he kill Nanami?

“Huuh? Don’t you know? If you kill the Chosen, the right is passed to the person that killed them. I wanted to go to the parallel world no matter what. Well, I feel sorry for Nanami-chan, but she did say that she was scared of going to a parallel world, right? She was going to die instantly there anyways. Then, everyone would be happy if I was the one achieving big things over there.”

“…You…idiot…!” (Hikaru)

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If you kill the Chosen, the rights are passed.

That was the rumor that was circulating in the internet at the beginning, but that was merely an urban legend.

There were several Chosen who were killed, but not a single story about the killer getting the rights passed to them.

It simply goes to a random lottery again.

This idiot believed that urban legend and killed Nanami.

“Who~ is the idiot? What are you getting all cocky here, you loner.”

I was kicked, and fell on top of Nanami.

I am not in a state where I can fight back. My consciousness was already fading.

The burning feeling in my back was already gone, and I now only feel cold.

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I could tell instinctively that death was approaching.

“Now then, just about 1 hour more, huh. It would be a pain if someone else comes, so maybe I should lock the entrance?”

The man left the room as if saying he had no interest in me and Nanami anymore.

“Guugh…at the very least…a call…” (Hikaru)

I tried to at least call the police.

But I had dropped my smartphone, and I don’t even have any remaining strength to pick it up.

“Nana…mi…” (Hikaru)

My vision was hazy from my tears and my fading consciousness.

But my eyes caught the thing that Nanami was hugging closely to her chest.

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“Nanami…you idiot…” (Hikaru)

It was a pastel colored pocket album.

She must have chosen that so that it wouldn’t be difficult to bring around. This album that was the size of a notebook was clearly something she had prepared in order to bring to the parallel world.

Nanami said that rather than some body armor, she wanted to make an album with her memories of this world.

Saying she would get homesick.

Rather than that other world where she doesn’t know anyone, what was important for her were the people she treasured in this world.

I stretch my trembling fingers and touch that.

…In the end, Nanami went to heaven with an album filled with memories as the girl that feared getting homesick, huh.

But I will soon be following behind.

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I didn’t manage to go together with her to the parallel world, but we have been together since the time we were born.

If possible, God…

Please let me continue being her childhood friend in the next world…

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