Murderous Truth (Part 2)
January 1996, a week before the incident
"Ouch…My arm…" Shirou held his sore right arm.
"Man. It's cold out here. I should have bought a jacket with me." He rubbed his hands together to warm them up.
He continued to walk his way back home.
Half an hour ago
"Too big!" Shirou arrived at the address he had written onto a small piece of paper.
In front of him was a giant house, and seemed to be an old Japanese-styled house.
"I need to prepare myself first." He slowly walked to the door, and knocked three times.
The person who greeted him was a man.
He wore a black suit, sunglasses and seemed to be a guard in this place.
Shirou was intimidated by him, but he tried to talk to him anyway.
"Erm…Is Ryougi Shiki here?"
"What business do you have with her?"
"I want to return this to her…" He said as he slowly took out an item.
The guard immidiately pinned Shirou to the ground, putting his right arm against his back, making Shirou shouted in pain. He was still a kid after all.
Shirou was holding a knife with its blade wrapped in a handkerchief.
"ARGH! IT HURTS!" He screamed.
"Hey, it's annoying out here. What's going on?" Suddenly a woman came out from the house.
Her sense of fashion was… something else as she was wearing a cyan kimono and red jacket.
It was the woman that Shirou had been pursuing, Ryougi Shiki.
"You are…!?"
"Hey! Ryougi! Tell this man to sto- Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch!"
"Ryougi-sama, do you know this boy?"
"No, I don't."
"Ryougi! I know! I know that you aren't the murderer!"
"!?"
"Release him." Shiki hesitated before telling her bodyguard. "What do you mean I'm not the murderer?"
"…" Shirou slowly stood up, rubbing his aching right arm.
"You saw it, didn't you? That night…" Shiki's face darkened.
"But I know. I know that you aren't."
"If you don't have anything else to say then go home. Kid your age shouldn't be out here this late."
"Oh, I forgot. I came to return this to you before someone pinned me down." Shirou grabbed the knife on the ground and gave it to Shiki, while glaring at the bodyguard. He didn't react.
"Well then, I'll be going home now."
"Giving me back my weapon meaning that I can kill you whenever I want, you know."
"Hah! You aren't the type of person to do that. I know it." After saying that, Shirou walked away from the Ryougi resident.
"Seriously, another one trying to prove my innocent…" Shiki went back into her home with her bodyguard followed, her hand was still grabbing the knife wrapped in a handkerchief.
"Woah! This is…!"
Shirou saw a manga store on his way back home.
"A new volume of "J*J*'s Bizarred Adventure is out!"
"Man, with all of these things keep happening in the past few days, I haven't had the time to read anymore. I read these all the time when I was in the hospital."
He bought a volume then continue to go back home.
He felt like he had forgotten something, but shrugged it off.
StirDrem here. I havent had the time to write more chapters due to my backlog of projects. I'm sorry but this might be the last chapter i'll be posting for a while. I'll upload more when i have the time.
