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Chapter 25
Chapter 1, Childhood Friend And I — Episode 25 : To the one I love【Kaori's Viewpoint】
Translated by KaiesV
Edited by KaiesV
————One month later.
「Is it true that there were unjustified restraints and assaults on hospitalized patients?」
「Restraints are intended to prevent self-injury and are released as soon as the behavior subsides.」
The reporter raises her hand and asks a question to the man in the white coat… in a strong tone of voice that is more like a choking question. Not to be outdone, the man in the white coat responded.
「So what about the fact that your son was performing sleazy acts on a patient?」
「What exactly do you mean by “sleazy”?」
「I would ask that you stop returning questions with questions…」
I happened to be fishing for videos on my phone when I saw a hospital run by Yamazaki’s parents being hung up on within AREMA News. The trigger was due to that deranged woman.
Naturally, the other classmates…
「Uwah, Yamazaki’s family hospital was in bad shape…」
「I told him I had a stomach ache, but he kept trying to touch my breasts. I knew it.」
Each was looking at his or her phone and verbally saying things that supported Yamazaki’s bad reputation at the hospital. It was lunchtime and Hanayama and the others were gathering, but today was not the time for my otherworldly tales.
「Kirishima, are you watching?」
「Yeah, you’re talking about Yamazaki’s hospital, right?」
Hanayama nodded. Normally, he would have made fun of Yamazaki’s womanizing behavior, but instead he had a somber look on his face. The hospital’s mismanagement led to the death of that deranged woman…
In the end, Yamazaki had become afraid of people’s eyes. He dropped out of our high school voluntarily and has withdrawn to his home as if possessed by the ghost of that deranged woman. I heard a rumor on the wind that he was injured.
Well, even though the business has gone under, it’s a doctor’s house, so I guess it’s okay to be a NEET… He won’t be going out and replacing girls and playing with them anymore.
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————Prior to her death.
He bowed his head and asked me to help him, as if he were apologizing, as if he had been in trouble and his eyes were covered with dark circles.
「Kaori… there’s a sanatorium in the hospital my parents run. Please, I want you to be hospitalized there. I can’t watch you anymore…」
Ahh～ He’s just saying that because of all the weird rumors and all the hassle…
You’re after my body again, aren’t you?
I took a leave of absence, and when I was shut up at home, Yamazaki-kun came to visit me and bowed down to me. What I really want is for Kaname-chan to come…
The girls in my class were not talking and were saying bad things about Yamazaki-kun as if he was a handful, but I guess he deserved some of what he got.
「Please take good care of my daughter.」
「Yes…」
「Eh!?!」
No way!? I can’t believe they decided to do that without consulting me… But the well-trained nurses-like people restrained my movements and put me in a nursing car.
Although I had been to a psychosomatic clinic, I was unstable, so with the consent of my parents, introduced by Yamazaki-kun’s father, I was halfway to be admitted to the sanatorium…
My mom also had a stroke when she saw my wrists and arms and had to be carried to the hospital. But Kaname-chan was watching me in the classroom. It hurts, but for Kaname-chan, it doesn’t hurt.
Kaname-chan will only look at me when I’m like this…
————At the sanatorium.
What, here…
I was brought here like a prison. The hospital room was a private room, but there was only a bed and a washbasin. The windows were barred with iron bars… The room had no mirror and was completely lifeless.
Yamazaki-kun is talking to me through the window next to the door.
「I want you to stay here for a while. You’re in too much danger…」
「Let me out! Why should I be treated like this!?」
I protested to him. It was as if he had locked me up to keep me from meeting Kaname-chan.
「After what happened at school, you’re not going to be able to fix it.」
「You just want to save your own skin, Yamazaki-kun! You just don’t want the girls talking behind your back about how you dumped me…」
「You can think what you want. But your parents have agreed to it.」
He spat it out like a throwaway line and left me. Poor me, forcibly separated from Kaname-chan by my parents and Yamazaki-kun. It was like being confined to a closed ward in the name of a sanatorium.
Uhh, uhh, uuuooohhh!!!
「Hold her down!」
「Bring the straitjackets!」
The well-trained nurses ran down the hallway. The sound of thumping and kicking echoed off the walls.
Such things are a daily occurrence in the sanatorium, but only then do I feel happy when I take the antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications they give me.
「Ahh～! Ahh～! Look, Kaname-chan! The stars are out. It’s beautiful!」
I’m having a good time talking with Kaname-chan next to me.
「Thank you, Kaname-chan… for coming all this way.」
Kaname smiled and stroked my hair, saying, “You’re doing great.” That alone makes me feel like it doesn’t matter. He kissed me gently on the mouth. I felt as if the time that had stopped at that moment had returned.
「Kaname-chan, it’s hot… it’s hoooooot…」
Kaname nodded and pushed me down on the bed… He held me and we should have had a happy moment, but when I woke up in the morning, he was not there next to me.
My parents and Yamazaki-kun tore us apart!!!
Aghhhh!!! I’m scared, I’m scared, this is scary… When the medication wears off, I feel rattled, my body shakes, and I get scared. I wondered if I would end up not seeing Kaname-chan again… When I thought of that, my body moved as if something had taken control of me.
「Who is it——!! Who locked me in——!? Let me out, let me out——!!!」
I hit walls and doors with all my might. Every time I hit a wall or a door, my soul seems to go out, and I feel as if I will meet Kaname-chan if I keep on hitting.
When I lashed out, the nurses rushed in and soon my body was pressed against the wall and my movements were restricted by shackles and other restraints.
「You deranged bitch! Don’t bother us!」
「Get your dirty arms away from me!」
My power is no match for them.
With a lot of abuse, I decided to get out of this prison and return to Kaname-chan.
————Yamazaki’s visit day.
Once a month, Yamazaki-kun comes to check on me. Today was that day.
「I think you’re under dosing. I’d like to see more drugging and less evidence of it.」
「As expected, that’s…」
「Who do you work for!? My father, right? If you don’t want yourself fired, you’ll do what I say.」
「I’m sorry…」
I hear a familiar voice coming from the hallway along with the sound of footsteps. I bent down and ducked my body under the window next to the door.
「She’s not here!?」
「What the hell!?」
I could tell that the nurse was in a great deal of hurry by the noise she was making with the locked key rattling around.
A moment after the door opened, I prodded.
The hidden spoon caught the nurse who had hurled the insult at me in the eyeball! A gnawing stinging sensation.
「Eyes, my eyeeeeeeessss!!!」
I fell to my knees, holding one eye where the spoon had been stuck. Yamazaki-kun saw this and fell on his butt. I took the scissors and keys that the nurse always carries with her…
「Long time no see, Yamazaki-kun. You came to see me, right… Fufu!」
「Kaori!!? Stop. You know what will happen if you do this. Heeeyy…」
The front of Yamazaki-kun’s trousers gets wetter and wetter as he watches the terrified nurse bleed from the spoon stuck in its eye socket.
「Aha! You must have felt so good in this bad stuff! But I don’t want it anymore!」
Yamazaki-kun, who was supposed to be good-looking, was pitifully teary-eyed, but he just backed up with his buttocks on the floor as if he were paralyzed from the waist down, as if his body could not move as it should due to fear.
「I would be doing just fine with Kaname-chan if it weren’t for this!!!」
I took off his pants and took a pair of scissors to his thing…
Yamazaki-kun fell down, blowing bubbles. Why did I… give my body to such a man?
Finally, I was able to escape from the sanatorium.
My mind was clear and my feet were as light as feathers. I was running out of the sanatorium uptown in my nightgown. I was almost there.
Ahha—!! Kaname-chan’s house is just down the road…
And yet, what a stick to block my thoughts! I can’t allow him to do such a tactless thing. I should have started from the beginning. I can’t wait to see Kaname-chan’s smile!
Clang, clang, clang, clang♪
It was when I pried open a fence that blocked my way and entered.
Whoooooossshhhh——!
The moment I heard what sounded like a loud whistle…
Screech, screech, screech——!!!
A huge object bounced off my body in a huge leap. The impact was as if every bone in my body was broken and my flesh contorted.
「It’s a personal accident—!!!」
In my fading consciousness, those were the last words I heard. The red-tinted eyes caught the impossible sight of the lower half of my body missing after being run over by a wheel.
Ahh, I… Am I going to die…?
Will Kaname-chan come to my funeral? Will he grieve for me? If there is a next time…
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It was when I regained consciousness again. Blue eyes and golden hair? The foreigner is looking at me, smiling… and was right beside me. This one is a woman. It’s true that I am dead. I should be dead, but strangely enough, I’m still conscious…
Where was I?