The Missing Children by Jin (Shizen no Teki-P)

Author:Jin (Shizen no Teki-P) [Jin (Shizen no Teki-P),]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Yen Press
Published: 2016-07-19T04:00:00+00:00

CHILDREN RECORD IV

It was hell.

Other people might have their own opinions, but to me, at least, the journey couldn’t be described any other way.

“Come on, Shintaro, how long’re you gonna lie there?”

Kido spat the words at me as I sprawled out on the ground, finishing off the sports drink she bought along the way.

“Give me a break…I’m gonna die.”

My nostrils were filled with the fresh smell of summer from the carpet of grass I’d just tumbled onto.

It felt pleasant, sort of, thanks in part to the shade I was blessed with.

“Man, I can’t get enough of this green grass…”

“Yeah, and I couldn’t get enough of your barfing all over the ground, either. That’s what you get for guzzling all that soda as an ‘anti-heatstroke’ measure.”

Kido’s sharp rebuke made the newly sustained wound in my heart sting in response.

But I didn’t care. I like soda. To me, it’s the elixir of life. If I need to keep myself hydrated, that’s my first choice. It’s water, right?

Water that I expelled violently all over a nameless meadow earlier.

“H-hey, don’t say that! I’m fragile goods, okay? You need to be delicate with me!”

“Hm. Sorry. Guess I kind of underestimated how much time this would take. I’ve been here before, so…”

Reaching this clearing required a train ride of about an hour from our hideout’s neighborhood station.

We had been walking for two and a half hours since then. It was a cruel, merciless death march, one designed to kill off any shut-in who dared attempt it.

I felt perfectly within my rights to vomit once or twice along the way.

It’s not my fault. It’s certainly not the soda’s fault. It’s all summer’s fault.

Though maybe not completely…

“Hey, Kido…? I know I’m borrowing these and all, but was this really the best clothing you had for me?”

I pointed at the mountain-climbing wear I was sporting.

“Hey, you’re the one who started whining about getting your hoodie all dirty. Sad to say, I don’t know what kind of clothes would be more suitable for the mountains than that.”

Kido sat down to my right as she spoke.

Maybe she was right. But this heavy gear in the dead of the summer?

At least get something lighter for me…

The more I thought about it, though, the more I realized how pointless it was to protest. This outfit was picked by a girl who was still wearing her long-sleeved hoodie out in the sun, after all.

“…What kind of crazy place did Marie even live in, though? There isn’t a single thing anywhere near us. What’d they do for food?”

“Yeah, I tried asking her about that, but…No. It’s nuts.”

Kido brought a hand to her forehead. Judging by that act, I could easily imagine what kind of off-the-wall reply Marie gave.

“You saying she didn’t…?”

“…Yeah. Apparently. They took in fluids, but otherwise, nothing. Y’know, I thought she acted weirdly shocked at whatever we brought out for dinner when she first showed up, but…”

Marie, before our eyes, was turning into a complete enigma. They lived here, eating nothing, for over

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