Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table, Vol. 2 by Yushi Ukai and Nekometaru

Author:Yushi Ukai and Nekometaru [Ukai, Yushi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2024-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

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After that second elapsed, she continued walking. She had paused for only the briefest of moments. There was virtually nothing irregular about her movements. Had there been a hundred people watching her from nearby, ninety-nine of them would not have noticed anything strange.

Her action would have escaped the notice of a layman, but against a professional, it would likely have amounted to a mistake.

Yuki had felt someone staring at her from behind. She had cultivated this sixth sense of hers by teetering on the brink of life and death over the course of twenty-nine games. It allowed her to perceive any threat to her life. While that obviously included sensing hostility, she could also detect, with rather high precision, the presence and stares of other people. She’d also trained herself to avoid alerting people to the fact that she’d sensed them.

That was what she had hoped to do in this situation as well.

It was only for a mere moment, but Yuki had reacted to the person’s gaze. A professional with keen observational skills, like a police detective or a private eye, could very well have noticed Yuki’s unnatural movement. She had been too careless. Even though she was outside a game, she had demonstrated an excessive lack of attention. Her condition was clearly abnormal—

Yuki cut short her train of thought.

None of that was important. Right now, her priority was the gaze.

How long had it been on her? In all likelihood, it had only just landed on her, but since Yuki was off her game, she couldn’t say that with certainty. It was possible someone had been watching her since the beginning of her walk or even since she was in class.

Whom did the stare belong to? A classmate from her night school? A police officer seeking to scold a minor for walking around late at night? Her agent, who had finally come to invite Yuki to her thirtieth game? Or perhaps a player with a grudge who had discovered where Yuki lived and was waiting for the perfect moment to carry out an assassination?

Regardless, Yuki had to uncover the identity of her pursuer.

She strayed from her usual route home and headed to a nearby park. She didn’t have a particular reason for deciding on the park. She did think she could minimize damage there if she was forced to cause a commotion, but she also had a gut feeling, bordering on conviction, that a park was the perfect setting for a midnight rendezvous.

In any event, she ended up in a park. It was a rather bare-bones affair, with swings, a slide, rideable animals with springs jutting out of their abdomens, and a single bench. It seemed like management hadn’t been by to spruce things up in ages, as the equipment had rusted and weeds were running rampant. Since it was the middle of the night, no one was around.

Yuki stopped in the center of the park and turned around with the agility of a phantom. While heading to the park, she had pinpointed the direction the gaze had come from.

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