Awaken from a Dream by Yoshikazu Takeuchi

Author:Yoshikazu Takeuchi [Takeuchi, Yoshikazu]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, Fiction
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Published: 2018-04-24T04:00:00+00:00

Yuma summoned every last shred of willpower she had and used it to keep fleeing from the voice.

But even that willpower was beginning to weaken.

What good will running do? Where can I go?

Ahead of her was a sliding glass door. On the other side, a balcony. Beyond that, only death. Flinging herself over that railing would bring her certain death.

Acting only on unconscious instinct, Yuma slid open the glass door and exited onto the balcony. There, she put her hands on the railing and turned herself around to face her enemy.

The man was only a few meters away.

Crawling on his stomach, he raised his head like a snake to look at her. He kept on staring, with the box cutter protruding from his eye and his face painted red with blood. His mouth dropped open, and he gave her a broad, happy smile.

“Yuma, we’re going to die together. Not alone. That makes me so happy, Yuma.” He stuck out a purple-tinged tongue and licked the blood from around his lips. “Tell me, how would you like to die? You probably want it painless, I bet.”

He slithered one step forward and asked, “How does strangling sound?” Another slithering step. “We could both jump off the balcony.” Another step.

She shook her head, No, no. She didn’t want to die. More than that, she didn’t want to be killed by this man. Trying to put what distance she could between herself and him, she kept her back against the railing and sidled to the right.

The man’s head turned, locked on to her, as he pulled himself forward with his arm. Backed into the corner of the balcony, Yuma now truly had nowhere left to go.

The man stared at her, savoring the moment. “You really are pretty, Yuma. You’re so cute when you’re scared. You see now—you have nowhere left to run.”

He was now two meters away.

“You know, now that I think about it,” he said, “I think I’d rather kill you with the box cutter, after all. It will hurt some, but you’ll just have to endure it.” He put his hand to the box cutter embedded in his eye. “Besides, I’ve endured so much pain for you already.”

He pulled out the knife. With a messy, wet sound, a jelly-like object came out with the blade. Countless thin tendrils hung down from it.

It was his eyeball.

Fresh blood gushed out from the empty cavern of his eye socket.

“It hurts, Yuma. Oh, my eye really hurts.” He shook his head again and again. Then he adjusted his grip on the box cutter. “But this pain doesn’t even compare to how much it hurt when I learned you were seeing another man.”

As if with the last of his strength, the man sat up, and then stood. Severed Achilles tendon or not, he stood.

“Yuma, it won’t be much longer now. First, I’m going to stab this into your eye. And then your throat. And finally, your heart.”

The man aimed the tip of the box cutter at Yuma and rushed toward her.

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