The Eminence in Shadow, Vol. 4 by Daisuke Aizawa and Touzai

Author:Daisuke Aizawa and Touzai [AIZAWA, DAISUKE and TOUZAI]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2022-05-18T00:00:00+00:00

The Tanaka house is in a sorry state. The building itself has fallen into ruin, and the food is too rotten to eat.

I start out by rummaging through the rooms and grabbing whatever articles of clothing catch my eye.

I end up settling on a hoodie, some jeans, and a pair of sneakers—the perfect outfit for an autumn afternoon like this one.

Then, we have Beta.

“Master Shadow, I really do apologize for all the trouble.”

She’s modeling yet another outfit.

“What do you think about this one…?”

“…Beta, that’s what we call a ‘school swimsuit.’”

When Beta comes out from behind the door, my eyes meet navy fabric, fair skin, and bulging flesh.

The swimsuit is practically bursting at the seams.

“A suit for swimming, you say…? But it’s fantastically elastic, and the material is efficient and easy to move in.”

“Maybe, but you’ll be chilly as hell.”

“I can just use magic to make up for—”

“Vetoed.”

“Aw…”

Beta slumps her shoulders and leaves the room.

I wish she’d just gone with the outfit I put together for her. She said, “Thank you so much!” when I gave it to her, but the look on her face told a different story, so I told her she could pick whatever she wanted and left her to her own devices.

As it turns out, no good deed goes unpunished.

I sigh and get back to my rummaging.

This is fine, though.

It’s not like we’re in any sort of rush, after all. No harm in taking things slow.

As a former Japanese citizen, I’m kind of curious about what happened to this world. I hope humanity didn’t go extinct, but I guess you never know with these things.

The three things we need right now are food, water, and intel.

I keep looking through the rubble and eventually find a couple of phones and tablets. I test them to see if they’ll turn on, but no dice. There’s some paper media, too, but most of it is too weathered and rain-damaged for its text to be legible.

I can just barely make out the words “Japan Collapses” on a scrap of newspaper, followed by something illegible.

It’d be one thing if it said “Japan’s Economy Collapses,” but man. “Japan Collapses,” huh?

I wonder if they meant it metaphorically or in actuality. If it’s the latter, something really bad must have happened.

Once I finish searching the room, I head to the hallway and open the next door down.

When I do, I’m greeted by a surprise.

“I thought I smelled blood…”

Inside, I find three bone-bleached corpses.

Their blood and bodily fluids have long since dried up, but the smell still faintly lingers. From the look of it, they’ve been dead for at least a few years.

They’re accompanied by bloodstains, and not just on the floor. There’s blood splattered on the walls, too. Plus, their skeletons have been crushed, and there are a couple bones unaccounted for.

However they died, it clearly wasn’t pleasant.

“Too grotesque for a normal old homicide…”

Was it revenge, maybe? The work of a serial killer? Or something else entirely?

I lay out the shattered bones and try to rearrange them into some semblance of their original shapes.

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