Vol 2 Chapter 4 (1/2)
Chapter 4 - The Collapse and Detachment of Their Bonds
Was it simply my luck?
Or was it simply because I was a nice person?
The gratifying thing to think was that nothing serious occurred over the weekends
Huessed it was most likely due to my plan
But if you were to ask me what I really had done, I would tell you that theexpensive co around ininto my brother’s room in search of erotic printlets out of curiosity to ave up as I didn’t find any
Okay, so nothing really big had happened at all—I hoped so
And fro of desires on them only induced similar events
For example, there was someone who took a peek at his little sister’s phone out of uneasiness of whether his sister had a boyfriend Then, his sister neglected him for the entire day, and he had to buy a spate of snacks from the convenience store to serve his sister
Another example would be someone anted to climb a tree at the spur of the ot up, she felt extreed the fact that her panties were seen during her climb
Another exa should be trashed and actually threw his books and notes into the paper recycling bin but got back to bring them back in a scurry afterwards
Of course, all of these were trivialat the most
On Monday o to school as usual
I wanted to lead everyone to follow a usual life
I had to be careful tosafe and usual
They were nice people
I wouldn’t have to be afraid of this if I were a nice person
So, everything would be fine if everything would stay at its place
Besides, I should also be—of course, I was not as worse as being totally incredulous of humans, yet I don’t allow myself to put my trust on people
I understood the world I was living in was filled with enemies
Why? This was because humanity was dark to me
Why? This was because I belonged to the dark
However, didn’t I reckon them as nice people?
Who knows? I wouldn’t knoas right
Or even, I wouldn’t even knohat person I was
At recess tiase Iori returned to her classrooashi+ Taichi, “I paid a visit to Class 1A They said Yui didn’t come to school today”
“Oh”
Excluding the weekends, Kiriyama Yui had been absent for four continuous days Taichi couldn’t help worrying whether so happened to her
“When I called her, she said she was all right through the phone”
As Nagase murmured, Inaba Himeko walked towards them
“I hope she didn’t collapse”
“What do you mean bycollapse?” Taichi asked Inaba
“Inuts like what happened last time”
Collapsing and going nuts weren’t too extravagant words to describe their situation
“We must pay a visit to her house even if she denies our request I know her address anyway,” said Nagase, terribly perturbed
“All right Let’s do it”
Taichi nodded his assent nervously
“Don’t put on those tensed faces e don’t even kno things ork out Let’s put a smile on our faces! Should we visit Yui with such immensely serious faces, she would surely shut herself away, and our plan will backfire Let’s visit her joyfully, shall we?” Inaba said with a sase’s faces
A ht occurred to Taichi for a ile
Kiriyama’s house was a two-storey townhouse situated in the residential area
“Hey”
The speaker replied to them the second time Taichi pressed on the doorbell The sound was husky and devoid of vigour, but it was surely Kiriya her voice assured Taichi a bit
“Kiriyaase played around like a pri some of her voice was only her feint, she really presented an extremely joyous facade
“Eh? Hold on Is it Iori? It can’t be Why?”
Kiriyaase’s unplanned visit
“Oh, I’ether with Inaba and Taichi”
Sticking his head out, Aoki Yoshi+fumi waved to the speakers
“There aren’t any ca of whether Aoki had such cognition
“Oh, hi So, everyone’s here?”
“We’re here to visit you May you let us in? Are we causing any trouble to your faase pushed Aoki aside and spoke to the speakers
“There aren’t anyone herebut I can’t! Please don’t come Please leave”
Her tre their arrival
“Is it because there are boys here? Would you let Inaba and I in?”
“It has nothing to do with that Anyway, I can’t let you in”
“But why?”
“That unifor I can help you?”
Someone, most likely Kiriyama’s mother, had just arrived Kiriyama had seemed to lock herself in her room recently This was the worst way one could take in this situation
“All right, Yui! Open the door now! Your friends are here to visit you!” Kiriyama’s mother shouted as she knocked the door
“Bother! Take theh the door in the opposite direction
“I’m really sorry She have locked herself in her room lately and have been reluctant to coetically towards them with her head lowered She looked even more petite now
“None of this sort happened before This was due to the effects of the police counseling indeed”
“It’s fine, miss I think she’s only a bit wavered She would unwind soon”
Inaba showed her a business ss if she had put her heart in it
“So, leave it to us, Miss!”
“Aoki, you don’t have to exaggerate ‘Miss’oh forget it”[1]
Taichi kicked away his idea of retorting, as he had found this mere act even more troublesome
“Thanks so hter” Kiriyama’s mother deeply bowed her head to thank them
“You’re welcome,” they modestly replied
“So, will I be a hassle if I stay here? I’ll wait downstairs Please tell me if you have any problems”
With that said, Kiriyama’s mother went downstairs, her back painted with loneliness Looking at her with observation, one would find her face was also a bit wan Although the ones involved in the unleashi+ng of desires were only the five of thes, for on a burden on them
“Yui, it’s not good to let your er, oddly Perhaps Nagase’s mother had divorced for several tile-parent fahter relationshi+p
“Anyway, Yui, let’s have a talk Things have got even more tricky now,” Aoki tried to persuade her in a different way, though Kiriyama was still adamant to yield
“Please leave I’ive some time I’ll return to school after that”
“Hmphh What a hassle”
Inaba turned her necks, stretching her body out
“What are you trying to do?” asked Taichi, backing from her at the same time
“Nothing really I only want to speak out the ic words that would force her to open the door immediately”
“Who the hell are you?”
“Cough Anyway, let us start now until she let us in Allow me to expose Kiriyama Yui-san’s secrets one by one First, her BWH from head to toe is”
Click
“Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on! I’ll let you in Hold on!”
“Gosh If only you could start telling us those figures, everything would beco”
Taichi reckoned that Kiriya was correct
Clu into a ball, Kiriya on her kneecaps She earing sportswear: a sports shi+rt, a sport pants—it was a complete household outfit Her usual combed and tidied chestnut hair now looked a bit unkempt and messy; her face also told her weariness
After Taichi and the others had sat on the floor, the room seemed a bit crowded
“Sorry for co to your house without previous notice; we’re really worried of you, Yui”
“It’s no big deal, Iori Anyone would feel aard for someone who locked himself or herself in their houses without any specific reasons to do so” [2]
Kiriyahtly and shook her head
“Do you feel sick? Is there anything uncomfortable? We will return if that is the case Oh, by the way, there’s one big acne on your forehead Does this have to do with”
“No, no, no! Don’t look! Yipes!”
After Aoki pointed it out, Kiriyas in a scurry and covered her forehead
“This wasthe worst mistake I’ve made in my life”
“Have you eaten and drank in a frenzy?”
Upon hearing Inaba’s guess, Kiriyaht
“NoIt’s a sudden ied h I often think of this, I couldn’t refrain fro the calories of the food I’d eaten afterwards, I knew death aiting me”
Perhaps her desire of eating sweet stuff was unleashed when she was hungry
“The reason why you would be absent for school couldn’t possibly be due to that acne, could it?”
“Of course I wouldn’t for such a reason!” Kiriyama stood up to rebuke Inaba’s words
“So, the reason lies on the unleashi+ng of desires «Heartseed» have caused?” asked Inaba distinctly
Kiriya pan She was an easy thing to understand But because of this, it made it somewhat uneasy to communicate with her Yet, pure silence wasn’t the way
“Yui It o the unleashi+ng of desires,” Aoki comforted Kiriyama
“Are there any proble of desires?” asked Taichi to himself
Kiriya doards in sorrow
“Taichi, could you ask with more euphemism?”
Iori glared at Taichi
“Right Sorry”
“I think it’s fine At least it’s better than dragging along the whole day”
“Inaban and Yui can’t be treated with the same metric”
Inaba only replied to angry Nagase with an agreeing tone and recommenced, “So, Yui, what is the relationshi+p between the unleashi+ng of desires and you locking yourself in your roo this wouldn’t hurt, would it? It isn’t irrational for one to lock oneself in a rooainst their will”
Kiriyama looked doards and nodded
“Ahah? Stop joking around Everyone has this situation”
“But this is because I don’t want to hurt anyone anymore”
Large droplets of tears slid fro that scared Kiriyas were sent painfully and deeply
“O-On that day, I saw the girl being bugged by soht that these boys were shi+t, and I had to help the girl Then, I began ra that sound”
“But this is because of the weird stuff «Heartseed» had caused”
As Nagase was trying to convince her, Kiriyama interrupted and yelled, “But I really wanted to teach those guys a lesson!”
The feelings produced in one’s heart were in fact the purest feelings one could possess It was enough to cause one to sense guilt and fear
“Besides, I’ain next time, I don’t knohat I’ll do I’o outside?”
Taichi thought it was a feeling that could be understood, but at the next instant
“Stop having this boring pose of a victiust
“Stop locking yourself in the room and try to escape”
Inaba glared at her with eyes so sharp it looked as if it one into rae like this? Or was it because of the effects of desire unleashi+ng?
“B-But wouldn’t everyone be safe froe if I don’t meet anyone?”
“Do you understand the situation we’re in? Ah? Don’t you know?”
Inaba approached the backing Kiriyaradually,
“Wait, Inaban!”
“In-Inaba!”
“Calm down, Inaba!”
Nagase, Aoki, and Taichi tried to cease Inaba, but Inaba just wouldn’t stop
“We’re under control of that idiot «Heartseed» And that guy wants tothose personality exchanges and desire unleashes Do you understand up to this point?”
Under Inaba’s oppressive tone, no one dared toTaichi didn’t kno to react to her
“It is a good response to evade the proble oneself in one’s house, but because this is the best strategy, it’s the worst way”
Did locking oneself in one’s house counted as going against the rules? Inaba’s question for «Heartseed» once again ran in his mind
“There wouldn’t be any problems if you were in a space where there is no one and absolutely nothing This could be our largest defense as well as our offense”
Inaba stood up, stepping on Kiriyama’s bed with one of her feet, and continued to speak, “But let uy?”
They didn’t understand the interests and the way of logic of «Heartseed», but they could perceive it wasn’t interesting for him if they did that
“Let uy? Also, if it isn’t, ould he do then? He ive up if he’s not interested Second, he ht h”
How much had Inaba analysed it? Taichi was a bit appalled
“I tried to ask that guy whether locking oneself in one’s house counted as going against the rules, and that guy told swhen it’s necessary”
Forgetting even to cry, Kiriyaour in her body
“In other words, that guy wouldn’t adopt the first action but the second or third But he , as he does not have credit of any kind However, he uy has the ability to do so”
Inaba’s personal perfor to its finale
“Are you planning to lock yourself in your roo to escape fro than the desire of unleash to happen? Do you realise howyourself have an easy life? Tell me now!”
“I don’t understandwhat I should do”
Kiriyama cried, her face completely pulverized
“Don’t pretend to be cute Don’t think that someone will help you if you cry!”
This line gave the total fatal hit to Kiriyama
“Inaban! You’re over the line!”
Nagase tried to stop Inaba, but everything was too late Kiriya She couldn’t even lift up her body Still, she gave her all into suppressing her sound, so she didn’t cry out loud It was depressing to , Inaba kept silent Nagase crawled onto the bed, caressing Kiriyaase crawled onto the bed, Inaba had already transferred her feet off of the bed Taichi peeked at Inaba’s face It was pan, without any sense of the violence just then She was biting her lips so hard it looked as if her lips ht bleed Taichi lost the chance to call her since her face was too dejected with sorrow Then, as if detached, Inaba sat beside the bed crudely
The reason why she would take her words into that stage was certainly due to the effects of the desire unleash If she were in her normal status quo, even if she was stern, she wouldn’t adopt such a speakingKiriyama
“Sorry, Yui I didn’t plan to take inally, I shouldn’t be that angry It was because of the desire unleash And YuiI know that it is very painful to hurt soainst your oill, yet I said those words without ive me”
Inaba endeavoured to weave her words, stretching her hand out to Kiriyama at the same time
“But, Inaba, this is what you think, is it not?” said Kiriya
The hand Inaba stretched lost its target and wavered, going doards before reaching Kiriyama Taichi felt scared of what awaited the of desire could hurt people to such a stage and destroy inter-personal relationshi+ps to such an extent On that day, they still couldn’t bring Kiriyama out of her room
On the following day, Kiriyao to school
She had beco in that mad event, and had inevitably beco the students
Because she was in the same club as Taichi, Taichi was asked of her recent statuses a few ti
This made Taichi even more perturbed and distracted in the lessons
Originally, he wanted to plan on how to solve Kiriyama’s problem, but then he hesitated What would happen if the unleashi+ng of desires were to occur now?
He had also experienced his desire of helping Kiriya out suddenly