Chapter 1 (1/2)
1 Prologue
NO FATIGUE The Tale of the Man Who Could Fight for 24 Hours
Thank you for taking an interest in 『NO FATIGUE The Tale of the Man Who Could Fight for 24 Hours』this time
I thought to write this story by putting importance on the tempo and exhilaration of the story
There may be parts that weren’t ofwith this story for many chapters to come
※ For those who think ‘Prologues are tedious, get to the story already!’ I’ve prepared a ‘prologue of NO FATIGUE you can understand in 3 lines’ in the postscript
Those of you who feel that way, please briefly scroll through and look at the postscript
With that said, please enjoy 『NO FATIGUE The Tale of the Man Who Could Fight for 24 Hours』!
T/N: Both the prescript (is that a word?) and postscript are translations of what the author has written
1 Prologue
When I exited the Game Centre, I heard a scream
In front of my eyes, there was man in a black jersey on the opposite street
That man held a knife stained with blood, chased an office worker as fleeing after being stabbed in the shoulder, and stabbed that fleeing back with the knife
Without being concerned with the office worker’s screams, the man stabs the office worker another 2, 3 times
The man loses interest in the li for his next prey
What caught his attention was a feh school student who collapsed in shock and couldn’tthe violent murder
The man ran towards the female student
The female student tries to run but the man seized her arm before she could stand up
The fe broadly
Splattered in blood, the man raises his arm overhead
I dashed fro to that arm
Maybe because it was this situation, I carefully observed the man’s appearance with my head completely cool
He was around e, maybe a little older, but probably in his thirties
He had a slender face covered with stubble, but his bloodshot eyes and inflated nostrils brought about a strange intensity
I tried to pin down the man’s arm somehow but the man shook me off and took out a new knife from his belt
Looking at it, thefrom it
Thehis knife and I moved my rucksack to block it, and then used it to ram into the man
However, themy body blow, and used his knife to slash
Blood sprays out from my arm
My consciousness recedes due to the pain and by the time I am aware, a knife was pierced into my stomach
“This…!”
Anger erupted along with the pain
I swing my rucksack around recklessly
I feel the rucksack collide with so hard, and it hits the random slasher-man on the head
Inside the rucksack was a sturdy ArcCon (Arcade controller)
I grappled with thewith pain, and try to snatch the knife from his hand
Soed to take the knife from him It was that moment
The ferabbed at the man
Perhaps, she was probably trying to help me, but that’s when misfortune struck
“…gubu”
A sensation I’ve never experienced before transh my arm
The round with his eyes open hile
I looked at my own hand in blank amazement
There’s blood
It’s a knife
A blood-stained knife was clasped in my hand
…In other words
―I stabbed him?
“C-criminal discovered!”
While I was frozen in shock, a pair of police officers appeared from street
“The cri a black jersey, and is a slender man in his thirties― I’ve confirmed it!”
I look down at my torso
I earing a black jersey
Moreover, I was certainly in my thirties with a slender build
“W-wait a moment…! I am…!”
I reflexively swingout to the police officers
But
“H-he’s resisting!”
“Y-you’re mistaken… I’m not the slasher…”
“Then what’s that in your hand!”
When told that, I check my hand
Yeah, this is a knife
And furthermore, it was dyed red with the blood of the criminal I just stabbed
It was hard to deny it with this circumstantial evidence so I became flustered
I was stunned
And then of all things
“Hey Hey hey hey just wait a moment, I am…!”
Stuttering intensely, I tried to run over to the police officers
Of course, it happened to be while I was still waving the bloody knife in my hand…
Even if I was at the end of my wits, I must admit that I should have been more composed somehow
“D-don’t come any closer…!”
The police officer warned, holding his gun out
I was enraged, but I also ca the senior police officer’s stern expression and theat me
However
“Eep, uwahhh!”
This ti police officer panicked
“O-oi stop it…!”
The senior police officer’s restrain was also in vain, and the young police officer pulled the trigger
And it wasn’t just once but many times
Bang, bang, bang, the sound reverberated through my abdomen
Together with these final sounds, a scorching heat ran through my chest
My head turned blank from too much shock
And then from the next instant, I lost hope
Withinfield of vision, I saw the senior police officer pin down the young police officer
With that scene as the last, I collapsed onto the ground and lost my vision
“T-this is… too ht…”
My lungs haeed after those murmurs
Just like this, my life came to an end
“…Indeed, this is a bit much”
“Doauaaahh!”
I feel like I heard a woman’s voice but I was in no mind for that
I don’t kno it became like this, but suddenly the world was at my feet
……
Sorry, that was poorly worded
To put it si down at the world from a distance
Look, there’s footage that is like ‘looking at the world froht?