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"Ah.. Koizumi-kun,"
A voice trailing after him.
Akira turns around, a smile already painted perfectly onto his expression. "Oh? What is it?" A minute tilt of his head, hardly noticeable, but it means everything. Hands behind his back, it means everything. "Surely that Masayuki hasn't done it again?" He says the words in that certain way of his, polite, but solid, polite, but cold.
"He's so mean..." Ai mutters, face flushing. "A-anyways! E-even though he has, it's not why I'm.. um.. um... Koizumi-kun, have you heard of--"
And then the train passes by, and the perspective is an ever-changing idea. I've no time for lousy writers and minuscule ideas, you know? I don't have the time, I don't have the time for your idea of the story meant to be told. Koizumi Akira is in the library five days later. He overhears a conversation - or he claims to, I think he was meant to.
Of course, because otherwise -
the story you're about to read would never have happened, you know?
Akira pauses by a bookshelf - considers his options. ...He had intended to just buy the book he had wanted to read - but this conversation was interesting. And maybe Akira is being awful by listening in - after all, surely it was a personal matter he had no business meddling in. Of course he has no business in the issues of other people. But curiosity is such a damaging thing.
His hand pauses atop the spine of a book.
There is a woman's voice, she's maybe college-aged? No, she might be older..
A man's voice, rather soft - maybe the actual college student between the odd duo.
"Fujisawa-kun.. I'm not really sure I get it." The college student says, voice shaking.. a nervous type of person, of course. "You want to.. create despair in some kid? I still don't understand it.."
A soft laugh - barely audible, almost sounding like a wheeze from the older woman- Fujisawa-kun, was it? "Tsk, tsk - 'course you wouldn't, you know? Ah- but what I'm referring to when I say something so abstract like 'despair'.." The woman taps the table idly for a moment, before opening her hands to show her palms. It's a gesture of an explosion - of thought, of understanding, of knowing inherently so. "Of course, I'm talking about that killing game."
Ah. Something Akira actually understands has been mentioned.
The Killing Game Phenomena - it's a recent thing, causing parents to be extra protective of their children. Many teenagers and adults have been kidnapped to participate in these - but, really, none of them really get off the ground as far as Akira is aware. The organizers are always so idiotic with their transparent paper trails. How embarrassing, really..
Ah, but they're still talking.
"..What about it..?" The college-aged man tilts his head.
Fujisawa grins, wide, and Akira thinks that it's a tad uncanny. "That Enoshima girl, the lone survivor, after it, she kept blabbering on about 'despair' this and 'despair' that.. How do I put it- it's a fascinating concept. That someone, after such a tragedy, would latch onto something like that as a coping mechanism. Or maybe it's some sort of affliction those two created somehow?" She leans back, arms behind her head. "I've never heard of such a reaction, so it's just so interesting!"
Akira takes a step back.
...
Maybe he shouldn't be eavesdropping.
This conversation is ... far too strange. Far too off. Something is weird about these people - that Fujisawa-kun.. especially. Akira couldn't imagine anyone being so joyous to discuss the traumatizing of another human being - for what, pure curiosity? It's ludicrous. Absolutely inane, and strange.
He catches one last snippet, though.
"...Isn't this too cruel, even for you, Fujisawa-kun?"
"It'll do good to society, won't it? If we can figure out how to help people afflicted like this.."
Koizumi Akira hurries off before he can hear the rest -
...ah, he never did buy that book, did he?
I'm fine.
Even as the ink corrodes my throat, I'm probably fine.
I need to be fine, I think. I need to calm down. It's not that bad, probably. I just- I just need to clear my mind.
There is literally ink in my throat.
You know what? This is fine. This is perfectly fine. This is normal, even. Even as my limbs ache, even as my vision goes blurry, this is fine!!! This is so okay, so-
so normal.
So normal.
I'm fine.
Even as I struggle to catch my breath, even as I struggle to see clearly,
even as all I see is the color black, dripping down from my mouth like bile. I, covering my mouth and falling, falling, falling, falling to my knees, to my knees that I imagine would otherwise shatter if I were not a human being. But I have begun to think I'm not even that. How can I be? How can I be?
If you are human, are someone, are one of many,
then you would not hurt in devastating ways, clatter, ground, hurt. This is fine. I'm fine.
Even as the world twists and turns and cracks and shatters and I look up and I can only see the morose reality, the end painted in dismal colors, my body weak, I am weak, I am painfully that word - weak. I cannot push myself to my knees, for everything simply hurts too much. So then, I cannot even stand, because it hurts so. I stare up, I stare up.
I stare up at the pit I've made for myself and others, the end painted in unloved colors.
Even as the ink is leaking out of my mouth, pouring out of my mouth,
and I can think to myself, ah, ah, it hurts. It hurts, it hurts, even then, I can think to myself - is this right, is this correct? I am cold, I am cold, and then the end looks back down at me. I look up at the end and my gaze is blurred with tears,
so I cannot see even that properly.
My life is a tragedy told in a hundred different parts, from beginning to end,
it's this way, it's this way, where I can never know again, that word, that word, warmth, kind, kind, kind, never again, unkind -
I am selfish if I want. I am selfish if I need. I am selfish if I can't stand the consequences for being a bad person. It's all I can be, I think, anymore. Why am I this way? What did I do to deserve the hand that is being dealt to me? Through a gaze blurry, could I have met your eyes at one point, and not ever registered it?
I miss, I miss, I miss, I miss the days where nothing was this way, where it all hurts, only hurts, always hurts, never stops hurting. I don't want to be this way, this painful way that I can't bear anymore. I know I'm selfish. I know I'm wrong. I know I can't stop it, though. Even if I try my hardest, the color is still red on my hands.
The color is still marring everything I've ever touched.
And then there is the ink all around me, excessive, excess, me, in a crumble, a heap, a heap on the ground,
an excerpt from something that should have never happened.
I throw up ink black and grimace at the taste, but I can't bear to keep my head up any longer. It hurts, I decide with finality.
It hurts, and I'm sorry, and I'm so, so sorry -
and then I stare at myself, I stare at myself, at the blood and the ink and the emptiness inside of me, and I think,
It hurts.
I'm sorry.
It hurts.
Why did I let this happen?
It hurts.
What do I do?
It hurts.
I'm scared.
it Hurts
I don't
I
I don't want to die.
I really don't want to die.
I'm scared.
I'm scared.
I'm scared.
I think,
it hurts.
I think,
please don't think of me that way.
I think,
please don't think of me like I'm him.
I think,
please.
I think,
oh God, please.
I think,
I'm really sorry.
[And you look at me like I'm revolting.]
[And you look at the scene like it's meaningless.]
[And I know it is.]
[You tilt your head like it's interesting.]
[Even in death, I'm only a tool.]
[And then I watch as everything molds itself back together.]
[And then I stare as everything becomes as it once was.]
[But I was dead, so I can't stare or watch or gawk or know.]
[My narration is a failure.]
[The story's already over.]
Humanity is in the one who moves first,
who wins.
And who loses?
We don't have time to wait for them to catch up.
There's just no time.
You can say it's something like greed, or curiosity, or simply a chance.
I want to understand a human being beyond anything anyone else can do.
I want to hear humanity in my ears,
I want to feel humanity's pitiful heart in my hands, still beating with frantic panic,
still beating with an instinct to simply stay alive.
At any costs.
I want to know.
I want so desperately to know.
I want to know.
No..
it's more than that.
I need to know.
I want to dissect the truth hidden between the pages of their lies.
I want to understand why they tell lies, why they are complacent with society.
Is it because it's all they have ever known?
Is it because it's all they will ever know?
What if it was different?
So..
At the end,
I just want to watch someone fight to live.
I want to know they tried so hard.
And I want to watch that human person
fall apart.
It's human curiosity.
Painfully human curiosity,
to want to know.
To want to know so much so that they'll do anything to know.
(My name is Fujisawa Kayoko.)
(I am a person filled with endless curiosity.)
(I want to see the truth realized in a human being.)
(I need to know.)