Gosick Volume 1 by Sakuraba Kazuki

Author:Sakuraba Kazuki [KAZUKI, Sakuraba]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fujimi Shobo

Monologue 3

Children stood frozen in a bright corridor. I was standing in the middle of them, holding a body with a knife through its throat. For a while, no one moved or spoke.

Only nine kids remained. Huey and the Hungarian girl were gone.

“There’s a weapon here!” the German boy said. He was large for a fourteen-year-old. His near-adult-sized physique was shaking with rage.

He twisted Lee’s hand that she was hiding behind her back, and pushed her forward.

“Stop!” I cried.

“Take a good look. An actual weapon, and she’s holding it!” His intimidating voice, laced with a German accent, reverberated in the corridor.

Everyone gasped at what he showed. In Lee’s hand was a small knife, shaped like an elephant’s tusk. It gleamed coldly under the light.

“She did it,” the boy said bitterly. “She killed her!”

Lee tried to shake off his hand, dropping the knife in the process. The German boy bent down, still keeping his grip on her small hand, and picked it up.

Lee shook her head in denial, tears in the corner of her eyes.

Yang stepped forward. “Stop it!”

“You’re not the boss of me, chink.”

“What?!”

Another boy quickly stepped in front of the angry Yang. Large and muscular, he’d been with the German boy from the beginning and gave off a similar vibe. He was Austrian.

The Austrian boy grabbed Lee’s other hand. “If it weren’t for her, we wouldn’t be in any danger. She’s the one hiding a weapon. Bitch was just pretending to not understand a word!”

“You’re wrong!” I protested. “She really doesn’t understand a thing!” But they didn’t even spare me a glance.

The German boy struck the frozen Lee in the head as hard as he could. Her little head shook and her long black hair bounced in the air. Yang rushed to stop him, while the other kids just stared at the scene in stunned silence.

“Yeah. She was alone with Huey when he died. You’re the one who locked us in here, and you’re killing us one by one!”

“Well, not on my watch. We’ll be the ones to kill you!”

The two large boys started ganging up on Lee.

The situation was getting out of hand. Being trapped in here and seeing a dead body were making them lose it. Yang tried to stop them, but they were too big for him, and he ended up getting knocked back instead.

Then, the German boy raised a knife.

The other kids screamed.

He brought the knife down, aiming straight at Lee’s heart. Yang hurled himself at the boy. Someone else from the group of kids also called for the German boy to stop.

Thanks to Yang, the knife missed Lee’s heart, slipping past her side. The German boy’s full force landed not on Lee’s heart, but on the red carpet in the hallway. The floorboards made a crunching sound.

It seemed to be a very sharp knife. Bright blood spilled from the shallow wound on Lee’s side. The cut skin turned red, as though a flower had bloomed there.

Everyone was paralyzed.

Lee let out a short shriek before fainting.

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