Boogiepop and Others by Kouhei Kadono
Author:Kouhei Kadono [Kadono, Kouhei]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2014-05-08T16:00:00+00:00
4.
As they had planned, Kusatsu Akiko gradually began to come to school less and less often. Her family was falling apart, and was behind on her tuition payments, so nobody thought this at all unnatural.
She got her friends hooked, and Yurihara and Masami took them. The first one they nabbed was Suzumiya Takako, second year, class F.
It was easy to take her. She and her friends always gathered in seclusion, and all that Yurihara and Masami had to do was follow them as they left and simply take them down.
Unfortunately, they were unable to alter them in the way that they had Kusatsu Akiko. They died, but they did not return.
“It seems it requires a very delicate balance.”
“Good thing we decided to experiment first,” they said, whispering in the darkness.
They had been killing Shinyo Academy and other local high school girls, one after another. To cover this up, they laid down a few red herrings to throw off the authorities.
Once the precedent was established, the rest of their work went smoothly. There were no signs of fuss at school. At Shinyo Academy, there had even been a special meeting and a resulting morning lecture, but that was all. Missing person reports had probably been filed with the police, but they were buried in a mountain of missing girls totally unrelated to them at all, and swiftly forgotten about.
“The students that ran away were all slackers to begin with,” the guidance teacher told Saotome at the discipline committee meeting.
This generalization was so insensitive to the students’ individual circumstances that the committee president, Niitoki Kei, stiffened her tiny body and turned her cute, childish face downwards to hide her steaming glare.
But Masami was taking minutes, so he wrote the gist of the comment down in his notebook. “Disturbance in behavior precedes disappearance.” As he wrote these words, he was expressionless.
He never let a faint smile steal across his lips.
Everything was going exactly according to plan.
Still, he was left expressionless. Nothing the teachers said and nothing happening around him could change this. He had killed five people without so much as remorse, and here he was, still acting like an ordinary student.
But when the teacher stated that, “Incidentally, the infamous Kirima Nagi failed to arrive this morning. Make sure to keep an eye on her, hear? No telling what that girl's plotting in the shadows,” Masami's cold heart skipped a beat. He didn't show it, but even now that he had the Manticore, hers was one of the few names that could affect him.
***
Kusatsu Akiko's behavior became strange a month after she had been altered.
Even when she came to school, she seemed particularly out of it.
When people spoke to her, she barely seemed to notice, much less reply.
(... uh-oh.)
Masami figured that Kusatsu Akiko had begun to break down much faster than expected.
They couldn't leave her like this. She was clearly evidence. If she collapsed somewhere and was taken to a hospital, they would surely discover her condition, and the ’institution’ that made the Manticore would soon find out.
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