Hello there! Just a quick question, are you guys still interested by this story? Sometimes I worried it's not the case.
Just as I said last chapter, this is the Midori special chapter. Please take the time to read it too. I know Midori isn't really popular, but I hope this chapter might change your mind about her. When I first created Midori, she was just supposed to be an AnR OC meant to be a simple antagonist, but I became quite fond of her and she's now one of my main OCs. So yeah, I hope you'll like this chapter.
Warning: Implied child molestation and abuse.
"She's such a weirdo, always by herself."
"Yeah, she's so anti-social and creepy."
"Ah, I know. Let's go pick on her!"
A terrible idea three bully kids had regarding Sasoriza Midori, a solitary and introverted classmate of them. Midori wasn't the type to let herself be pushed around by others, so the three bullies ended up at the infirmary, injured by a chair Midori threw at them.
"That's not good, Sasoriza. You shouldn't hurt your classmates like that," her teacher reprimanded her.
Midori didn't like him. Her teacher was liked and admired by almost everyone for his apparent kindness, but not by Midori. She didn't like the way he looked at her. It reminded her of how her parents looked at each other. It was certainly not a way an adult should look at a kid.
"They harassed me first," Midori protested.
"Still, violence is never the solution. You should have come to talk to me, I would have helped you," her teacher replied with a soft smile as he put a hand on her shoulder. "Come to see me after school so we could talk about it."
Midori didn't like that. She didn't like when he touched her. But since he was her teacher, she had to obey. So she stayed after school and went to see him. Her teacher was sitting on his chair, looking at her as he patted his thighs.
"Sasoriza, come sit here," he invited.
Midori felt it was wrong. He shouldn't ask for that. But she didn't want to get into trouble for disobeying her teacher, so she did as he said and sat on his laps. He then started to gently stroke her back.
"What you did earlier was wrong. I'll have to punish for that. But don't worry, I won't hurt you. You just have to trust sensei and...not speak about this to anyone. Understand?"
Her teacher's hands touched all her body. Midori was too afraid to move. She knew it was wrong, she hated it, she felt used. But then, she felt something poking her back and immediately went out of her teacher's laps. She then turned back. There was something weird in his pants. She didn't want that. So she ran away.
"Sasoriza, come back here! Do as sensei says, or else…"
Midori tried to look for help, but she saw no one. Too afraid, she just wanted to leave the school. But when she arrived at the stairs, someone grabbed her by behind.
"No, let me go! Don't touch me!"
"Listen to me, no one likes you here. Except for me. So just be a good girl and accept your sensei's love!"
"No! I hate you!"
Midori managed to push her teacher away. He fell down the stairs and Midori heard a crack. His neck was now twisted in an unnatural angle, and a puddle of blood was under his head.
Midori heard a scream. She turned back and saw multiple people surrounding her, looking at her and the now dead teacher with horror. The students looked at her with fear and the other teachers as if she was a monster. The principal gazed at her with utter terror.
"Sasoriza...what have you done!?"
Midori's life became a living hell after this event. The police concluded that it was an accident, but no one believed her when she said her teacher molested her. He had been a well-liked man after all, while she was mostly hated by people. And she was even more hated after she accidentally killed him. She couldn't go to school anymore, but people still harassed her and her parents. Her parents received a lot of hate too for their daughter's action. And her father lashed his frustration on her, while her mother did nothing to help her.
Not only she was harassed when she was outside, she was also mistreated when she stayed at home. Her father, a heavy smoker, took the habit to burn her with his cigarettes. Her arms and belly were full of burn marks. Midori knew it was a crime, that a parent shouldn't do that to their kids. But she didn't trust the police. Cops didn't help her when her teacher assaulted her, so why would they help her now? The law couldn't protect her, the world was just so rotten.
And then one night, she heard a conversation between her parent about her:
"Damn, it's your fault if we're stuck with that cursed child!" her father said.
"I couldn't know she would end up that way!" her mother protested tearfully. "She was my brother's child, it's not my fault if he died and left me with his kid to raise. And you accepted to raise her as our daughter too!"
"And I regret it! Why did her biological mother didn't keep her instead?"
"She...didn't want to keep her…"
"Well, I understand her. She must have sensed her daughter would grow up as a sociopath. But thanks to this bitch, we're stuck with her evil kid! Is it too late to get rid of her?"
"I...I don't know. Perhaps?"
It was too much for Midori. So her parents weren't her real parents. What a terrible way to learn about it. Her mother was actually her aunt, and her father just a stranger. And none of them wished her to be their daughter. They even wanted to get rid of her. But how? Did they plan to...murder her!?
This was the moment Midori decided to act. If the world was corrupted and so did the law, then she'll take justice into her own hands. Her safety and perhaps even her life was at stake, she had to do something, she had...to get rid of them first.
Midori barely remembered when she turned on the valve gas. Her father left a still burning cigarette in his ashtray. When the gas will reach it, it should burn down the house, and all its inhabitant. It was the night, her parents were asleep, unaware that death was close to them.
The green haired girl wanted to leave before that, but something kept her from moving. Why should she escape? Would it be better for her to die? Everyone hated her, including her own parents. Was there really a reason for her to remain alive? She couldn't think of. Her life was a living hell, so why not just die in actual flames?
But then she remembered that they had a cat. Was it inside? Midori didn't want it to die. So she started looking for the cat and found it. She quickly grabbed it and left the house. But as soon as she reached the main door, an explosion occurred. Midori was thrown away by the blast and violently landed on the ground outside, still holding the cat. She then released it and it ran away, unharmed. Midori was glad the cat was okay, and lost consciousness.
Her parents' death was considered an accident. Midori suffered from burns on her back after the incident. No one was bothering her anymore. They all still hated her, but after three deaths she was related to, they were all too scared of her to continue harassing her.
She was now a teenager and a high school girl. She was still an asocial person and no one dared to bother her, given all the rumours about her being a murderer. There was one girl in her class that was always bullied. Midori wondered why. The girl was nice, pretty and smart, not the typical bullied victim. Perhaps she was just hated by some popular kids for her kindness? Who knows.
Somehow, Midori was intrigued by that girl. Who could she keep smiling and be optimistic while being bullied? It was something Midori couldn't understand. She didn't really feel bad for this girls, but she does feel hatred towards her bullies.
One day, they had a school trip to the mountains. Midori was on the same team as the bullied girl and three boys for the trip. The three boys spent their time teasing the bullied girl, pretending it was only jokes rather than bullying. The girl didn't take offence, but Midori was greatly annoyed by their behaviour.
When they were walking in the mountain, the three boys took a break to go pee. Suspicious of their behaviour, Midori discreetly followed them to a cliff and hid behind a tree, to hear their conversation.
"Good thing we were put in the same team as that girl. We'll be able to have some fun with her."
"Is it really okay? I mean, if we get caught we will be accused of rape."
"Nah, it's fine. That girl is an idiot. She let her bullies do what they want with her, I'm certain she won't report us. We just had to make sure this creep Sasoriza isn't there and we'll be able to fully enjoy this girl."
Midori couldn't see them anymore. Instead, she was the three bullies who once tried to pick on her, before she hit them with a chair. Then she saw her teacher, and then her parents. And everything went black.
When Midori was able to see again, the three boys had disappeared. She was standing at the edge of the cliff and looked down. They were down there, in the river, floating inertly in the water. Midori realized that she must have pushed them. She was so angry and disgusted by what they intended to do to this poor girl that she momentarily lost contact with reality and killed them.
And Midori didn't feel the slightest guilty about it.
Once again, the death of those three boys had been concluded as an accident. Midori told the police that she saw them fighting near the cliff and ended up falling by accident. The water had clean her fingerprints on them, making it impossible for the police to accuse her.
Midori felt satisfied. Justice had been done. She saved this girl and gave to those guys what they deserved. Scums who wanted to abuse others just deserved to die.
One day, she received a rather disturbing text on her phone, signed with the name Yukari.
"I know what you did. You killed those boys, don't you? Because they were bullies. I think it's wonderful. How about you join our group, Collective Dismissal? We get revenge for bullied victims, I'm sure we could use your help."
Midori wondered how this person found out the truth. Did they make research about her and discovered about her past and guessed the truth correctly? And should she accept this offer? She wasn't sure if she should. It did look interesting though.
Then the girl she had saved came to talk to her later that day.
"Sasoriza...you killed them, don't you? I...I saw you...pushed them down the cliff."
"...I suppose there's no point hiding it. I don't fully remember what happened, but yes, it was me. Those scums wanted to rape you, this was...unforgivable. What I did was right, it was...justice."
"No, you're wrong. Killing is never the answer. I can't condone what you have done."
"I see. What are you going to do then? Tell the police?"
"No. I know you had good intention. I don't think you deserve to go to jail. But please, don't kill again, okay? I don't want you to dirty your hands even more."
Midori replied nothing to this. What a pure and innocent girl. She was too good for her own good. Midori knew that she was the one who was right. Those boys deserved to die, no matter how she looked at it. But she couldn't help but feel some attraction to this girl. She was just so good, so unlike her. It was the first time Midori felt this kind of feeling, this connection, the need to bond with someone. She wanted to be friend with this girl.
The next day the girl invited her to her house, because she had something to tell her. Midori refused because she had homework to finish, but agree to meet with her the next day.
But it never happened.
When Midori when to this girl's house, she had the unpleasant surprised to discover cops. She wasn't fond of them at all. And it got her worried. There was also an ambulance, and two paramedics carrying a gurney with a black bag on it, clearly containing a corpse.
Midori learned with despair that the girl had been murdered last night by a serial killer known as Jack the Ripper of the 21st century.
"I'll join you. I'll kill anyone you want," Midori texted Yukari back.
Midori didn't know how she felt about what happened. Sad? Angry? No, more...empty. She had lost the only person she had some feelings for, the only one she wanted to bond with. Without her, Midori was left in a world full of people she either didn't care about or loathed. All she wanted now was to kill as many assholes possible, it was all she had left anyway. Her first mission was to kill a bully according to the plan made by a fellow Collective Dismissal member, a certain Kenmochi Shiena. She was supposed to meet her later today.
She was in her bedroom, clipping some newspaper articles that she then glued in a notebook. Those articles were mostly about murderers, especially Jack the Ripper of the 21st century. Midori considered this person as her worst enemy. The monster who dared to take away the only light in her life. This person was the embodiment of darkness, and one day, Midori swore herself she will eliminate them, that she will make them suffer as much as they made their victims suffered. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
She eventually learned their identity: Takechi Otoya. A girl around her age. Midori was surprised. She thought it would be a man, she pictured them looking like her teacher. But it didn't matter. She was now in jail, but since she was a minor, she won't be executed. Another proof that the law was useless. It also meant that one day, Takechi will be released from jail, and that Midori will have a chance to take her down, to do justice herself. It was up to her to avenge those the law failed to protect, just like it failed to protect her as a child. The green haired girl slightly brushed Takechi's picture in the newspaper's article she had clipped, before stabbing it.
"Jack the Ripper of the 21st Century...Takechi Otoya, you better watch yourself, because one day, I shall be the one who will kill you."
So that was it, the Midori special chapter. I hope you liked it, and don't hesitate to tell me your thoughts. Next chapter will go back to the main plot, which is OtoShie. Seeya!
ps: don't forget to check Psycho & Hacker and Master & Pet, two spin-offs of this story! (still about OtoShie)