This chapter has a shooting scene.


Chapter 12

"Three Little Tanks scared as can be

One gets banged by a door,

And then there were two."

"Two Little Tanks try to escape

One gets shot,

And then there was one."

Both Erwin and Akio retired to their rooms. They didn't see one another for a couple hours. They just sat there. Yukari was nowhere to be seen.

At around seven o clock, the two of them met each other in the hall.

"I'm worried about Yukari-san," Akio said.

"I am too. We should to look for her," Erwin agreed.

So, the two set off. The storm hadn't gotten any better. If anything, it had gotten a lot worse. The wind was now a scream, and both of them had to hold on to their caps. When they reached the beach, they didn't see Yukari.

"Yukari, where are you!?" Akio shouted over the wind.

"Oh, great," Akio groaned, fear churning his stomach. Erwin and Akio ran down to the sea, looking around. There was nothing.

"Hey, over there!" Erwin shouted. She pointed towards some sort of rectangular piece of, was it wood?

"It looks like a door…" Akio trailed off.

The two stared at one another. They ran towards the door, flipped over, revealing Yukari's limp body underneath it.

"I know it's Anzu, I just know it!" Akio shouted, kicking some sand. The wind had increased speed, Akio could barely stand. The sea crashed against the beaches and rocks, splashing the sand and turning it into muck.

"We need to find some shelter!" Akio shouted above the screeching wind. A bolt of lightning lit up the sky, revealing the fear on Erwin's face.

"Not the house!" She shouted. "Anzu might be waiting in there!"

"The cliff behind the house then! The house might give us some cover from the wind!" Akio bellowed.

Thunder crashed, sending Erwin into a daze.

The two struggled up the hill to the house, leaving Yukari's body behind. They took cover behind the house.

The temperature was plummeting rapidly. Erwin shivered. Seeing this, Akio took off his own field marshal jacket and gave it to her.

"No, y-you t-take it," Erwin stammered through chattering teeth.

"We both know that you're colder!" Akio said. Wow. Weather around here was weird. Akio made sure that his pistol was ready.

The howling wind did nothing to calm their nerves. In fact, it actually only stressed. Erwin peered out to sea. The black water was angrily churning, a steak of lightning gave some light to the area for a few brief moments. However, that was all that was needed. She spotted humanoid figure on the other side of the cliff. She glanced over the cliff and caught a better sight of the ominous figure. It still wasn't enough to identify who it was. She leaned a bit farther over after making sure that Akio wasn't looking, and took a good look at it. Her stomach did several spirals.

Lying on the rocks below was the limp form of Anzu Kadotani.

Erwin suddenly felt fear hit her. She was stuck alone with the culprit. She needed to think fast. However, Akio's voice interrupted her thoughts, startling her.

"Erwin, since are chances of survival are virtually nil, I want to tell you something," he said.

"Yes?" Erwin asked, racking her brains for an escape plan. A bolt of lightning.

"I, I, I really like you, Erwin," Akio finally said.

Erwin froze. Was this a trick? She was pretty sure that it was, but she thought a plan out of it.

"I like you too," She said. It wasn't a complete lie. Akio didn't expect this.

She leaned in and kissed him on the cheek, but her hand was doing something else. She quickly grabbed his gun.

"Freeze!" she shouted. Akio, startled in seeing a gun pointed at his face, reached for his own. Until he realized that the gun pointing at him was his own.

"So you only said that to pick my pocket!?" Akio's face showed a number of feelings, but two stood out the most: Sadness and anger.

"You murdered thirteen people, including your own sister. You're a monster," Erwin growled.

"What would make you think that?" Akio asked.

"Kadotani's body is down there," Erwin said, motioning towards the cliff. "That leaves the two of us, and I know that I didn't do it."

Akio weighed his options. She was too far away to make a grab for the gun, so he decided to take the cautious approach: reason.

"Trust me when I say that I didn't do it. I wouldn't kill my own sister." He said.

"How can I trust you?!" Erwin shouted, wetness coming over her eyes. "I did trust you, but you broke that trust!"

Akio inched a bit closer. "Why would I kill all these people? Why?"

"I should have known, I should have seen, but I was blinded by my feelings," Erwin muttered.

"Erwin, I didn't do it," Akio said.

"Prove it," Erwin challenged.

"I- I don't have any proof," Akio sighed.

She steadied the gun. "You killed them. I will avenge them."

"Listen-" Akio began but was cut off.

"No!" Erwin shouted, pulling the trigger.

BANG!

Akio clutched his side in pain. It hurt worse than anything he had even imagined in his worst nightmares. He fell over. His cap rolled off to the side, his world going black.

Erwin stood there for a few seconds. Then she dropped the gun, astounded by what she just did. She didn't know what to do, so she ran. She ran as fast as she could, to get away from this madness, this insanity. She ran into the house with the intention of getting to a phone, any type of communication, but stopped in the dining room. She was freezing. It wouldn't hurt to warm herself up first.

She threw Akio's jacket onto the floor and lit the fireplace. She sat there, crying. She looked at the tanks. Why would he do such a thing? Why?

Wait, hold on for a second.

There was only one tank. But that didn't make sense. When she stepped outside to put out the fire, there had been three. And she didn't take it, and Yukari and Akio were outside permanently.

That meant-

She ran to the window. Akio was still lying there. But-

Something hit the back of her head. She blacked out.


Notes: Once again, my train of thought for this story will be revealed at the end of the last chapter. Will there be a happy ending? Will there not? Will I get killed for who the murderer is? The answer is: Maybe!

Now who do you think is the murderer?