Kagerou Daze, Vol. 5: The Deceiving by Jin (Shizen no Teki-P)

Author:Jin (Shizen no Teki-P),
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen Press
Published: 2016-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

So here we were once more, Room 107 at the far end of the first-floor dormitory hall.

On top of my dingy bed, the bottom bunk of one of the room’s two bunk bed setups, we were engaged in yet another mind-achingly uncomfortable postmortem session.

The theme of today’s meeting: “We’re now officially ‘monsters’ in the eyes of this facility…and if this keeps up, we’re screwed.”

It was frightening, actually, this string of bad luck we were dealing with.

In fact, our reputation was getting worse and worse every day. From every corner of the building, all sorts of rumors were beginning to fly around about us.

One example:

“Every night, at the stall farthest away from the door in the first-floor girls’ room, you can hear a ghostly voice sobbing to itself. No matter how hard you look, you’ll never find anyone…but the voice is still there.”

Apparently, this ghost made frequent visits to our room, as the prevailing theory went. I have no idea how the story got started. I mean, frequent visits? She lives here, dude.

I tried broaching the subject delicately with Kido. “I’m gonna punch whoever started that,” came the aggravated reply. Guess it rang a bell with her. I refrained from further questioning.

Here’s another one:

“One of the kids from Room 107 whispered something to a staffer, and then the guy disappeared the next day. Maybe it’s the son of the Devil!”

I had no clue what could’ve been the seed for that tall tale. At first.

“Actually,” Seto then said, “there was this one guy who was going around wearing girls’ underwear under his uniform, and I told him, ‘You shouldn’t be doing that,’ and then I never saw him again.”

Well, chalk that one up to us as well, I suppose.

Why was the staffer doing something like that? Why did he stop coming to the facility afterward? How could we have known? We were all still too young for all that.

How about one more to make it a solid trio?:

There was another story about “some guy who hangs out behind the dorms and keeps sniffing at stray cats.” Yes, that was me. I wanted to die when I heard that one.

These dark rumors about us seemed to inflate and exaggerate themselves on a daily basis. It was like a never-ending merry-go-round for me.

Not for the other two. They never cared very much about the rest of society, anyway, it seemed like. Just me.

Now I was in the middle of relaying a few of these latest rumors about us to them, ending each one with, “So what do you guys think?”

“I think you’re a freak, Kano.”

Kido’s eyes unwaveringly bore down on me.

“Huh? Uhhh…Huh?”

The answer was merciless as it was to the point. It came so suddenly that I thought she was making some kind of metaphor at first.

“I said you’re a freak.”

All right. Not a metaphor, then. I tried my best to withstand the barrage, driving the topic back toward our traction session.

“No, I…I wasn’t asking you what you thought about me picking up cats and sniffing at them.

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