540 Could this be… the true form? (1/2)

A long period of silence fell between them.

A cold breeze blew past, whisking up both their shirts.

Kazufuru grit his teeth.

”Lies! That's not what you really think at all!! You actually look down on me, don't you! You treat me as an idiot and despise me!! Otherwise, why… why is it that you're no longer even willing to be my friend after all this time!?”

Seiji was rendered speechless.

He felt that Kazufuru's words were rather subtle. Seiji revealed a strange expression.

Kazufuru himself also felt that something was wrong with how he phrased his question after he said it out loud. However, he was unable to figure out any other way to express his feelings.

”After that time, I thought that it would be fine to simply act as a regular classmate with you. It's not that I was looking down upon you or thinking that you were unworthy to become my friend,” Seiji told him honestly. ”I apologize if that's what you still minded after all this time.”

”I don't want your apology! I want… Natsuya Yoruhana!” Kazufuru managed to clear some of his thoughts.

”That's impossible.” Seiji's calm expression was instantly replaced by an emotionless one.

”You… you really are looking down on me after all!”

”No, this is disgust.”

”Is there a difference!?”

”Of course there is. Disgust is on a deeper level compared to condescension.”

Kazufuru was rendered speechless.

Another cold breeze blew past them.

”You currently like Natsuya Yoruhana, is that correct?”

”Yes.”

”And she also likes you?”

”That's a question you'll have to ask her.”

Kazufuru took a deep look at Seiji.

Seiji faced him directly.

”…Even if I kill you, she probably wouldn't like me, would she.” Moments later, Kazufuru slowly lowered his head. ”No… I should say that even if you were never around to begin with, she wouldn't have liked me.”

Seiji remained silent.

”In the end, I'm just an idiot,” Kazufuru said sarcastically to himself. ”From the very beginning.”

”Ooike-san…”

”Shut up! I don't want to hear you talk right now.”

Kazufuru viciously glared at Seiji and clenched his fists tightly.

Kazufuru's heart was currently filled with tumultuous yet indescribable emotions. He didn't even know what he was currently feeling. However, all he had left towards Seigo Harano before him was rage, not killing intent.

'I am just an idiot after all…'

Kazufuru clenched his fists even tighter. His body began to tremble and his eyes started becoming unfocused.

He turned around so that Seigo would be unable to see his face.

”You… just leave.” With great difficulty, he managed to utter this short sentence.

”Ooike-san…”

”I said shut up! Stop talking to me!! Get the hell out of here!!!” Kazufuru began roaring.

He heard the sound of footsteps gradually leaving.

Once he no longer heard anything, Kazufuru kneeled down in the sandbox and destroyed his own sand castle with a punch!

”Wahhhhhhhh!!!”

He began to cry loudly.

The pain from losing in love, his past regrets, his despair at facing death… all these emotions were too much for him to bear. He was breaking under the pressure.

The excellent student kneeled in the sandbox, cried loudly, and forcefully tossed sand everywhere. Tears covered his face, as if he was a young child in pain.

”I don't want to die… I don't want to die…”

He knew that he would die when the five day time limit was up.

He didn't want to sacrifice himself, but he was unable to kill the person he loathed so much. He didn't know what to do…

'Why did I meet with such an incident… why…'

”Someone, save me… I don't want to die… I want to live…”

He was only a first-year high school student still in the prime of his life.

He'd always worked hard, and he never did anything he considered immoral. He was quite proud of his own accomplishments.

The road ahead should have been long for him. He still had so many things he wanted to do, and didn't want to die like this…

”I want to live… I don't want to die… save me…”

He cried in despair and called out for help using his very soul.