TIP: Forgotten Worlds II
Please have a rest tonight, Hanyuu. You'll have to bring me to another new world, soon.
Teppei has disappeared. They haven't seen him since two days, and Shion is at her home, her sister has told us that she's raving into her bed, and that we'd better not to go and pay her a visit. It's not difficult to understand what has happened.
Oishi has visited too many times Hinamizawa's school, in this last period. Might he suspect something? But Shion has never attended school here. She escaped from St. Lucia Academy more than a year ago, but I've never seen her in our school. Probably she went to Okinomiya's one, far from her sister, and from Satoko. However...
However also Mion is getting more and more aggressive, especially towards me... I fear this world will end like the one where I wasn't able to drug her with the C120 medicine, if I had did so she would have died quickly, without inflicting so many tortures to me, and Satoko. Satoko, that's right... she's becoming so scared by Mion... and this just because, in the last couple of days, that young woman is going on blaming her about Satoshi's disappearance. How could she have done it? Her brother's absence is her biggest pain, imagining that she's the guilty of his vanishing is simply craziness. Ah, now I realize why she has killed Teppei. In her opinion he could have been one of Satoshi's kidnappers. Kidnappers, tsk. As if he would be alive, after having been secluded more than a year ago.
But I thought Mion loved Keiichi, not Satoshi... Satoshi was her sister's desire... But probably she had loved him the whole time too, and she tried to replace him to forget him, or rather she tried to leave Satoshi to her sister Shion, before surrendering to her instinct... I don't understand.
My poor Satoko... this world is going to a very fast and dramatic end. She's going to suffer from punishments of Hell, another time. I... I don't want her to face this giant pain. It's half past five, and she's not here, now, that's a good chance. I quickly go to her bedroom, and I find a little box in her drawer. Inside it, a little syringe containing her usual medicine. I'm exchanging it with another one, full of C120. They are nearly the same, fortunately, she won't notice the difference, even if her mind is so sharp. She has to take her medicine at nine o' clock, during this evening, and she's very strict about it; she had had to be so, otherwise her health conditions would have got worse, another time.
I will go out for a short walk, when that hour arrives. I'm killing her to avoid her a crueler fate, but I can't see her clawing at her throat until she dies, that would be too painful. But after that? … Who cares. Watanagashi will come in three days, they will kill me soon anyway, I fear. Just, I have to hide her corpse somewhere, I'd prefer Mion not to torment a dead girl, at least. So... probably that girl will be furious, since she won't be able to find Satoko anywhere, and maybe she will try to torture me instead of her. Probably she has killed Shion too, and now she's looking for new victims. Maybe I should name her a demon instead of a girl, her conscience has already been wiped out for sure. Hinamizawa Syndrome is such a cruel disease... she used playing with us until a few days ago, and now she's considering us as her worst enemies. OK, now I know what to do, after Satoko's death.
What will that demon do, when she realize Satoko and I have vanished too? She still needs a scapegoat, someone to relieve her frustration against. Well, she hasn't many choices... Keiichi and Rena will be her targets, for sure. The former or the latter? Keiichi represents her hopeless love, and it doesn't care whether the one she loves really is Satoshi or Keiichi himself. He's always so trustful, he could be captured easily, somewhat... but Rena is her enemy, I mean, her opponent in this endless love affair. She has been so, and she's going to be so even in our next worlds. I can't even think about it... My friends, I'm sorry, I can't avoid you this painful calyx. You wouldn't accept to inject the drug voluntarily, I've experienced it in another world, when Rena had refused angrily... And I'm too little and weak even to try to kill you, when I had tried to drug Mion I've seen the result of my attempt... I had committed suicide.
I look at the time... It's nearly six o' clock, now. Satoko has still not arrived. I wonder if I've acted in time, or if my little friend has been already grabbed by that demon. Maybe I should have been more resolute, and now it's too late. Poor Satoko. No, wait... why should Mion have looked for her only, ignoring me? In the other worlds she had killed me before her. I have to stay calm, probably she's safe, for now. Shame on me, I can't even go out and search for her, if she comes to home in the meanwhile, and Mion phones her to invite her at the Manor... No, no, mine would be a tragic mistake.
Yes, I'm hearing her approaching home. I'm so relieved. Now I can think about the place I need. I can't bring Satoko's corpse that far, I'm not strong enough. Oh, the Saiguden will work. I have to hide her only for the following two days, after this short period the whole village will begin to show the final symptoms of the disease, and once they are driven to craziness everything will be soon over. And about me, instead? Hmmm... yes, that sort of precipice not far from our road to school will be fine. We could see all the village from there, I remember I had stayed there with Satoko so many times, to admire the panorama... But I also had noticed how deep it is.
No, wait a second, it's not a good idea... I wanted to make sure the demon doesn't violate Satoko's corpse. But why should I protect mine, instead? I want my friends not to suffer, in this world, and if she finds my dead body, maybe Rena and Keiichi's fate will be not so tragic. I'll use a normal kitchen knife, I don't want to think about anything special.
Satoko has entered from the door, finally, and she hails me. She seems tired and a bit still worried, but she's fine. I return her greeting. She asks me what I want for dinner, I answer that I'm not hungry. I suggest her not to eat too, using as excuse an imaginary fattening of her. She eyes me, annoyed, but she decides to follow my advice. I want just to talk with her as with a good friend, as she's always been. I want to spend these last three hours calmly, alone.
Please don't talk to me, Hanyuu, this evening I'm tired, and I need to rest.