Taiyo pulled Sawako to his side with force.
"What's going on!? Let me go!" Sawako struggled to be free of Taiyo's hold.
"I told you I would make you regret every moment, right? This is it," Taiyo said mockingly as he held Sawako's right arm. Sawako tried to hit him though it didn't bother Taiyo.
"Let her go!" I roared and felt my hands turning into fists.
"Remember, I gave you one last chance and you blew it. I'm only keeping my end of the bargain and that is suffering for you."
I rushed towards Taiyo but he just showed his palm and I got blown away by some invisible force. I hit the fence hard and fell on my stomach.
"Sit there and watch." Taiyo tossed Sawako onto the ground. I raised my head to see.
"Zou-chan!" Sawako called as she tried to stand up to go to me, only for her hair to be pulled back by Taiyo.
Taiyo raised his free hand and a gun appeared. He then pointed the firearm at her head.
"You know, I've always wondered to myself," Taiyo said with a smirk. "Would you be able to feel the pain in your last moments if you ever get shot in the head?"
"Taiyo, don't!" I screamed as I struggled to stand up. My body hurted as I move.
"You care for this thing?" Taiyo pulled her hair up, making Sawako scream in pain. "They're not even human. Just a bunch of ones and zeroes."
"Fuck you!" I screamed. "Let Sawako go!"
"I did say you will suffer so I can't just do that." Taiyo pulled the hammer of the gun as he looked down on Sawako. "Say your last words, girl. Before I end you."
Sawako tried to smile through the pain as Taiyo held her hair. "Zou-chan, save yourself… I love—"
BANG. A loud gunshot deafened my ears. Taiyo tossed Sawako onto the ground again.
"The end." Taiyo blew the muzzle of the gun. "For her, at least."
I looked at Sawako's body. I found myself quickly standing up and rushed to her side despite the pain all over my body.
"SAWAKO!" I screamed until my throat hurt.
I turned her around and only saw the lifeless eyes of Sawako. I held her head up and felt the blood smearing onto my hands. No, this can't be happening. This isn't happening! NO! I REFUSE THIS! SAWAKO CAN'T DIE! NOT HER! I REFUSE HER DEATH! I WANT HER ALIVE! PLEASE! Please…
I embraced Sawako's body as I cried my eyes out. Why isn't she waking up? She should be alive like Shinji… What's going on? Why aren't my powers working? Sawako…
"Sawako… Wake up… "
Before I laid her to the ground, I kissed her lips one last time and then walked up to Taiyo. Without even thinking hard on it, I materialized a gun in my hands and pointed it at his face.
"What have you done!?"
"What I did was making you regret your decisions. Hurts, doesn't it? Knowing that you were wrong?" Taiyo's face remained calm.
I never thought in my entire life would I feel genuine in saying these words: "I'll kill you!"
"Then do it." Taiyo pressed his forehead onto my gun. "Pull that trigger. If you do that, this will all be over."
I pulled the hammer. "Why can't I bring her back!?"
"You know when you hold the shift button as you press delete? It's something like that. She's gone. Permanently."
No way… Taiyo erased her out of existence? Can he really do that?
"You're lying!"
"Then just shoot me and get your revenge. If you think I'm lying, what's the point of threatening me?"
I should. I should just kill this sick bastard for Sawako. There's no way he's ever going to be sorry for the things he did. No way around this. I have to pull the trigger.
"Die!" I screamed.
"No!"
The response made me turn my head at the doorway and in it was Monika, looking at me with a horrified face.
"Taiyo!" Monika called.
"Monika, stay back! She's very dangerous right now!" Taiyo warned, waving his hand at her.
"What!?" I looked at him in disbelief.
"Taiyo, what's going on!?" Monika asked.
"I'm only trying to get her to our side and now she's turned hostile," Taiyo said with a worried face. "Please, let me handle this."
"Monika, no! He's lying!" I protested, my gun still pointed at Taiyo.
"Shut up!" Monika scolded. "I am not inclined to trusting anything you say!"
"Monika, please, she's just confused," Taiyo explained.
I looked at this fucker again. "I am not confused! You killed Sawako!"
Monika looked at me with confusion. "He killed who?"
At that moment, I felt anger towards Monika as well. "Sawako! The girl from the Anime Club! The one I helped before the school festival! SHE'S RIGHT THERE!" I said to Monika desperately.
"Monika, I told you, she's recalling something made up. You should stay back." Taiyo said.
Monika, however, rushed in and took the gun from my hand. It was a skillful snatch, as if she had learned self-defense from a professional. And now that gun was pointed at me.
"I've had enough of your delusions!" Monika kept the gun aimed at me then kicked me and I landed on my back. "Taiyo, are you alright?"
"Monika, wait!" I yelled in protest.
"No! You've already taken Sayori! I won't let her take you as well." Monika looked at me with absolute hate. She got a little closer to me. "Taiyo. We have to end this or she'll cause more harm. I know you said you wanted to do this peacefully but she's not even sane anymore."
"Monika, no! You're making a mistake! Taiyo's the one you should go after, not me!" I felt myself suddenly panicking. Monika really wanted to shoot me.
I looked behind myself and saw Sawako was missing… But she was just there! When I looked at Taiyo… He was holding back his laughter. It was at that point that I snapped.
"TAIYO!" I screamed at the top of my lungs and pushed myself off the ground. I really wanted to hit him. Just once. Just once, I get to tear the smile off his face, but the last thing I heard was a gunshot.
