Si-chan swings her right palm upwards ever so slightly, and then a gigantic earthquake suddenly occurs.
*GRRRKK GRRRKK GRRRKK GRRRKK GRRRKK GRRRKK GRRRKK*
“Argh!”
I fell down towards the floor because of how intense the earthquake was. It doesn’t take long for the entire school building to crack and collapse on itself. The earthquake also happens throughout Saitama city, but it gets a lot weaker near the border.
*GRAAHK GRAAHK GRAAHK*
I saw the floor below me, the walls all around me, and the ceilings above me crumble fast. I fall through the floor, and the walls, and the ceilings above me also fall towards me.
I quickly think to myself, as soon as I look below and see so many sharp rebars coming out of the rock-hard rubble, that I am going to die.
. . .
I lost everyone I cared about.
I lost my purpose in life.
I lost my most treasured people in my life.
All in the hands of someone who belongs to that treasure as well.
. . .
I don’t know what to make of this.
Why would Si-chan do this?
I don’t understand.
She cannot let go of her identity?
What does that mean?
I don’t understand.
Why is her so-called identity enough to make her do something so cruel like this?
She even said it herself.
That she genuinely loves all of us.
Killing the people that you love in this world doesn’t make any sense, no matter how much I think about it.
What purpose does this serve?
She looked Ryuji in the eye as she told him that she loves everyone.
But then she herself punched a hole in his head.
. . . .
I can no longer feel any pain.
My heart becomes numb.
That means my feelings died along with all of my precious friends.
. . . .
As I kept thinking to myself, my life flashed before my eyes.
My juvenile life, a life where I didn’t experience enough things in life.
A life where I haven’t reached any of my life goals.
A life where I didn’t even have any goals.
A life where I never even know my purpose.
A life where I don’t even know why I was born.
That life will come to an end this soon. . .
. . . .
And afterward, I see the sharp rebars below nearby.
I guess. . .
This is it. . .
It’s the end of my life. . .
. . .
Actually. . .
Maybe this is for the best. . .
This way, I can be with all of my friends. . .
. . . .
I am coming, everyone. . .
*THUD*
. . . . . . .
.
.
.
*GRRRRKKKK*
*THUMP*
*GRRRRKKKKK*
*THUMP*
. . . .
I suddenly regain my consciousness.
“. . .huh?”
I opened my eyes slowly, and it was very bright. I was lying down sideways on the ground, and I tried to move my body.
“. . .Heavy. I can’t. . . move. . .”
I slowly realized that I was under a lot of rubble, yet my body wasn’t crushed to bits.
“What’s. . . going on. . .?”
“Mari-chan.”
*!!!!*
As soon as I heard that particular voice, my consciousness came back to me in full throttle.
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“Si-chan. . .”
. . . . .
“SI-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!”
I immediately scream in anger. I also tried to turn towards her, but I physically can’t.
*!*
Suddenly, I no longer felt the heavy weight of the rubble on top of my body.
*GRAHK*
*THUMP*
Si-chan ‘telepathically’ lifted all the rubble and threw it away. I immediately tried to get up, but I felt that my body was very weak. There was no strength in my legs. I fell back to the ground, lying face down against the ground.
“You can’t move. Trauma has numbed your body.”
“. . . .”
“Si-chan. . .”
Si-chan slowly turns towards me as I also turn my head towards hers.
“YOU BETTER HAVE SOME GOOD EXPLANATION AS TO WHY YOU KILLED ALL OF OUR FRIENDS IN COLD BLOOD!!”
My anger spikes yet again.
“. . .”
“ANSWER ME, SI-CHAN!!”
“That man Alpha. . .”
*!*
“You know, the one I fought in the woods.”
I immediately think of that one whisper that made Si-chan look very distressed and in disbelief.
“He told me who hired him to finish off my father.”
“. . .”
“Guess what I heard at that time?”
“. . .”
“The companies that all of our friends' parents went to.”
*!!!!*
W-What?
I. . . I don’t. . . believe it. . .
I was dumbfounded as soon as Si-chan gave me the answer.
I. . . I can’t think of anything at the time. . .
My mind went blank, and I was frozen.
“I already knew where their parents worked beforehand, but I still wanna confirm it with my own eyes. That’s why I deliberately wanted to go to each of our friends’ parents’ companies.”
“. . .”
“And then I sneaked around and found out about the hirings from multiple sources. But there was not a single name that was brought up. It’s probably because they want to remain discreet, so that if something goes wrong, it will be difficult to pinpoint a single perpetrator.”
“. . .”
“But then. . . Khu khu khu. . . AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”
Si-chan suddenly laughed like a maniac.
“COLOR ME SURPRISED THAT I FOUND A LIST WITH NAMES THAT GAVE THEIR CONSENTS ABOUT THE HIRING! ALL OF OUR FRIENDS’ PARENTS' SIGNATURES WERE THERE!!! THEY ALL CONSENTED TO IT!!!”
“. . .”
“AND HERE COMES THE MOST EXCITING PARTS, MARI-CHAN!! THERE WAS ANOTHER LIST OF PEOPLE WHO AGREED TO SCREWED UP WITH MY FATHER’S COMPANIES!!! THESE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE THAT SENT MY FATHER TO THE HOSPITALS!! THE SAME PEOPLE THAT HIRED THUGS TO BEAT UP MY FATHER!!! AND THEY EVEN PAID MY DRIVERS AND BUTLERS, AND MAIDS TO SET THIS WHOLE THING UP!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”
“. . .”
“And then, everything happened as it just unfolded. The earthquake just now also destroyed all of the company's buildings, this school, and our friends’ houses. But everyone else in the city who has nothing to do with this is completely fine. Their houses are still standing. My earthquake was finely tuned for specific targets.”
“. . . Then why?”
*!?*
“WHY DID YOU HAVE TO KILL OUR FRIENDS? FROM WHAT YOU’RE TELLING ME, THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY OF THOSE THINGS. WHY DID YOU EVEN KILL THEM?”
“Simply, because they knew about their parents' involvement in the hiring and never told me about it! I can’t let such loose ends left untied.”
*!!!*
“I found out about it when I spent a night at Hibiki’s house. Since we’re a girl and a boy, obviously, his parents won’t allow him to sleep in the same room as me, so I was sleeping in another room. I woke up in the middle of the night when they were talking about it, and I overheard their conversation. That’s why I killed Hibiki first.”
“. . .”
“And yet. . .”
Si-chan starts shedding tears again, but silently.
“. . . I couldn’t hate them.”
“THEN WHY DID YOU EVEN KILL THEM?”
I lost to temper, and I used such vulgar words that I never even used in my whole life.
“For money.”
*!!!!*
I was. . . at a loss for words. . .
What is she even talking about?
“Did you. . . Did you seriously kill all our friends for. . . money?”
“Yes.”
“How would you even get money from killing them?”
“I am going to sell their organs on the black market in the underworld.”
*!!!!*
I. . .
I don’t even know what Si-chan is saying anymore. . .
Selling their organs? Black market? Underworld? What do these words mean?
“I’ve done the math. No matter how much I worked my ass off, I’ll never reach the amount of wealth that my family had. My family became millionaires, and even billionaires, after hundreds of years, and after multiple generations. I wouldn’t even be able to enjoy the fruits of my hard work. This is the fastest way.”
“. . .”
“Of course, just from these six bodies won’t be enough. I am going to bring as many corpses with me from all the dead office workers. I am going to move all of them underground so no one even knows I was carrying hundreds of corpses. With my Faith power, it’s going to be a breeze.”
“. . .”
“I am done telling you everything, Mari-chan. If you no longer have any questions, then I am leaving.”
“Why did you spare me?”
“Simply because you have nothing to do with any of this.”
“. . .Do you realize that if you let me leave, I am going to hunt you down and I am going to kill you?”
“. . .”
“DO YOU REALLY THINK YOUR EXPLANATION IS SUPPOSED TO CALM ME DOWN AND MAKE IT OKAY FOR YOU TO KILL EVERYONE?”
“. . .”
“DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU’RE GOING TO GET AWAY WITH THIS?”
“. . .”
“ANSWER ME!!!”
“I suppose, you don’t wanna keep being friends with me, right, Mari-chan?”
“Do I even have to answer?”
“That’s fine by me.”
Si-chan creates a small flying platform by controlling the rubble all around us, and she hops onto it.
“Oh! Before I forgot. . .”
Si-chan turns around towards me before she leaves.
“Happy birthday, Mari-chan. . .”
And then she turns away and flies high into the sky, and I can no longer see her.
That was the last time I ever saw Si-chan.
Her last words really offended me deeply.
Happy birthday?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY?
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!”
I screamed as loudly as I possibly could, and I almost hurt my throat.
I SWEAR!
I SWEAR!!
I SWEAR ON MY LIFE THAT I AM GOING TO KILL HER!!
I SWEAR!!
SHE WILL GET WHAT SHE DESERVES!!
MY FRIENDS!!!
ALL OF MY FRIENDS DON’T DESERVE THIS!!
SI-CHAN!! I CALLED YOU MY BEST FRIEND.
BUT NO MORE!!
I HATE YOU!!
I HATE YOU WITH ALL OF MY BEING!!
I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN!!
I WILL USE ANY MEANS NECESSARY TO KILL YOU!!!
MARK MY WORDS!!!
MARK MY WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!
I let out all of my anger as I kept screaming inside my head. My body is so physically weak that I can’t even speak anymore after that last scream. I suffer psychological trauma rather than a physical one. My mind is so damaged that it’s affecting my body.
And yet, my hatred burns bright.
I SWEAR!!
I SWEAR!!
I SWEAR!!
I SWEAR!!
I SWEAR!!
I WILL KILL YOU!!!
I WILL KILL HEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
And then my entire body was surrounded by a bright white light, and a light shot up from the topside towards the sky. Slowly and surely, the white light turns green. And then the green light slowly disintegrates, and I came out of it, standing perfectly fine now.
*THUD*
I was holding something, and I bashed its bottom handle towards the ground. This was the time I first awakened my Faith power and became a Believer.
Turns out I was holding a giant scythe. It has green and black coloring. Its blade is 1 meter long and its handle is 2 meters long.
*!*
The knowledge regarding the name of my Faith power and its abilities was immediately carved in my head.
“Reaper’s Scythe. . .”
“Kh kh kh, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! THIS FEELS GREAT!! THIS POWER!!! MY BODY FEELS REALLY LIGHT!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”
At the moment I realized what my Faith power and its abilities are, I instantly laughed hysterically without a care in the world. I immediately activated my Vein Armor and jumped high into the sky. I look in all directions in the sky to see if I can still catch up to that woman.
. . . .
But I didn’t see anything. Then, I look below towards the city and look for some suspicious places where thugs and gang members might be hanging out.
.
.
.
It’s been an entire two hours, and the sky is getting dark. I have been rampaging through some street thugs' and gang members' hideouts, interrogating them with my new powers. I simply beat them up without killing them, as it would be too easy to kill them, and that would be boring. I’ve decided I should only use my powers to kill someone meaningful. Meaningless massacre means absolutely nothing.
Si-chan. Now that’s going to be one hell of a murder case.
I AM GOING TO TRACK HER DOWN TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH!
I DON’T CARE HOW MANY YEARS IT WOULD TAKE!!
I WILL CHASE HER!!
I WILL TRACK HER!!
I WILL FOLLOW HER!!
AND WHEN THE DAY FINALLY ARRIVED, WHEN I MET HER!!!
I WILL DEFINITELY KILL HER!!
MARK MY WORDS!!!
THAT MONEY HUNGRY BITCH WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING!!!
FOR HIBIKI-KUN!!
FOR NOBI-KUN!!
FOR SAKURA-CHAN!!
FOR SUMIRE-CHAN!!
FOR RYUJI-KUN!!
FOR HONDA-CHAN!!
YOU WILL PAY FOR EVERYTHING SIERRA PENDRAGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
I spent the entire night interrogating thug members and gang members to locate any black market buyer who accepts human organs. I jumped from place to place with such enthusiasm that I didn’t realize I had the most twisted smile across my own face.
