Boogiepop at Dawn (Light Novel 6) by Kouji Ogata

Author:Kouji Ogata [Ogata, Kouji]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: light novel
Publisher: Seven Seas
Published: 2018-09-06T04:00:00+00:00

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The final patients for the day were a junior high school girl and a young mother. The mother was a nervous wreck. She kept looking around restlessly.

“Please take a seat, Miyashita-san,” Makiko suggested. Only then did the woman sit.

Her daughter remained standing.

“So, what brings you here today?”

“Y-yes. Um…well, um, this girl…um…”

“———”

The mother glanced at her daughter with a look that could only be described as loathing. The girl looked tense and very embarrassed. She couldn’t believe her mother had brought her here. She seemed quiet enough, though—there were no outward signs of anything unusual.

“What about her?”

“Um…Doctor…you’ve heard of multiple personality disorder?” the mother blurted.

Makiko grimaced. “Yes, of course.” That was a foolish question to ask an expert in the field.

The mother failed to notice Makiko’s tone. “Th-that’s what’s wrong with my daughter!” she almost shrieked.

“Now, now, Miyashita-san,” Makiko soothed.

“She is! I’m sure of it!” the mother insisted, stridently.

Makiko glanced at the daughter. She was absolutely mortified and had turned bright red.

“There is a very strange man’s personality inside my daughter’s mind! There is! He almost killed me!”

“Mom!”

“You be quiet!” The mother snapped, hysterical. She seemed far crazier than her daughter.

“Well, Miyashita-san, I don’t know what happened, but multiple personality disorder is, in most cases, a fraud. Particularly in this country—there are almost no recorded cases,” Makiko explained.

The mother went pale, and moaned something, but she was too worked up for Makiko to understand a word of it.

“At any rate, may I speak with your daughter in private?” Makiko said, concealing her irritation. She summoned the nurse, who led the mother out of the room.

When they were alone together, the daughter sighed.

“So, are you a split personality? Miss…uhm…” Makiko glanced down at the chart and continued “…Miyashita Touka?”

“So she says. Not that I can tell, but…” Touka shook her head.

The music stopped. The cassette had finished. Makiko absently switched it to the next one on the stack and pressed play.

Classical music. Tannhäuser.

“Do you have any idea why your mother came to believe this?”

“…I was asleep, and my mother suddenly came into the room and shouted ‘Who are you?!’ and I woke up, surprised.”

“You were asleep?”

“Yes. Lately, I’ve been wondering if I was moving around while I slept, like a sleepwalker.”

“But that doesn’t explain why she asked, ‘Who are you?’ What made her do that?”

“That’s what I’d like to know,” Touka sighed again.

Makiko changed tactics. “Is your mother…getting along with your father?” she asked.

Touka looked surprised. “N-not…I mean…”

“I don’t think that’s the only reason, but marital stress can sometimes lead to psychological problems,” Makiko said, watching Miyashita Touka closely. There were no signs of anything unusual. Her main source of fear seemed to be her uncle, who had once scolded her furiously but was dead now. She was neither weak nor particularly strong.

The mother, despite being married with a child, held a violent fear of men.

“Well, uhm,” Touka said, flummoxed.

“Well, I can’t say anything yet. Why don’t we test you first?”

“Huh? Test…what?”

“We can try and find out if you do have another personality,” Makiko said, half in jest.

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