Zaregoto 2: The Kubishime Romanticist by NisiOisiN

Author:NisiOisiN
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 2010-06-22T00:00:00+00:00

Me, narrator,

and Aoii Mikoko,

classmate.

5

CALLOUS

Black and White

Ilikeyoulikeyouloveyoulots.

1

On Saturday, May twenty-first, I woke up early in the morning.

“Time to get up.”

I had had some kind of nasty dream. It seemed like I was about to be killed, and like I was also trying to kill someone. My entire body was being controlled by the sheer will to commit harm, and at the same time, I was being harmed. I ran and I ran and I ran and I ran and I ran, but sooner or later the figure chasing after me turned out to be myself, and I was gripped with terror. Certain death was just behind me, and yet it was strangely exhilarating. It was that kind of awful dream.

The sheer fact that I couldn’t remember it made it a night-mare, and the fact that it was a nightmare made this a rude awakening.

I rose up from my futon and checked the time. Five fifty in the morning. My plans with Mikoko-chan weren’t until ten o’clock, so I still had roughly four hours to kill. With nothing in particular to do, I folded up my futon and pushed it into the closet.

I went outside, thinking it might be nice to go for a run for the first time in awhile. I locked up just to be safe, but with a lock of this quality, Aikawa-san wasn’t the only one who could easily break in if so inclined. Not that there was any-thing in that place I’d mind having stolen.

I ran east down Imadegawa Street and turned back once Dôshisha University had come into view. I went directly back to my apartment and changed out of my sweaty clothes. Why, oh why had I thought it would be a good idea to run in this heat? I wondered with the usual remorse.

I picked up the book I had borrowed from the school library and reread the part I had previously stopped in the middle of. That alone ate through a good chunk of time, so from there I picked up the envelope from Kunagisa, the con-tents of which I had already glanced over a few times.

The envelope contained police documents. Through what means Kunagisa had obtained such a thing, I didn’t know, but we had sort of a don’t ask, don’t tell policy. What I did know, however, was that Kunagisa could access pretty much any place with electricity running through it, and that within her circle of friends were criminals who knew just about every-thing in the entire Milky Way galaxy. Of course, normally I had little interest in criminal investigation. But these were documents on the murder of Emoto Tomoe.

“But come on . . .”

I flipped through the paper-clipped sheets of A4 paper.

There wasn’t really any new information. The documents elaborated on some of the more minor details, but most of them seemed irrelevant, and it was all more or less what Sasaki-san had told me. I was a little bit shattered to realize that this was what I had endured Aikawa-san’s interrogation for.

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