I never liked video games.
They always told me the same message over and over.
Game Over.
"Kaito!" a man cried, bursting through the office door of his boss, Kaito, waving a picture in his hand frantically. "This is a picture of the victim that was killed the other day."
Kaito looked over his shoulder in annoyance, giving the man a look, as if to say, "Couldn't you have knocked?"
"I asked around the other day and got this through connections," the man explained. "The police are very confidential about it!"
Kaito only puffed some smoke as he smoked his cigarette.
"Hey, Kaito!" said the man, annoyed. "Are you listening to me?" The man gasped and quickly let go of the picture as Kaito tossed a dart, almost jabbing the man's hand in the process.
"I can hear you very clearly," Kaito said calmly, turning around in his chair to look at the picture. "I am also looking very clearly."
I walked down the street silently, listening to the sound of cars driving by. I didn't really expect to get Wolfy's name tag back from that girl, so I was going to go by a new one. "You little thief!" I heard someone cry. I turned to see a man holding a little girl by the collar of her shirt, trying to pry a music box from her hand. "I'll report you to the police!"
Gumi! "Wait!" I cried, running over and trying to pull Gumi away. "This child is my student!"
"What does that matter?" the man seethed, glaring at me. "This kid stole from me!"
"Then I'll pay you for that music box!" I told him, reaching into my pocket and searching for my wallet. "I'll pay you right n-" Shit! I gave all the money I had to that girl...
"Here!" I heard someone say. I turned to see that girl, Rin, wearing a white sweater and the same jacket she wore last night. She was leaning against the store window, holding out some money in her hand. "This is your's, Len."
"Don't do that kind of thing again, Gumi!" I scolded her after the drama had managed to settle down. We had settled down on some steps that lead up to a large house near mine. "You could've just asked your new parents to buy it for you."
Gumi didn't look at me; she was staring at Rin, curiosity in her eyes. "Who are you?" she asked.
"Gumi!"
Rin laughed, pointing at me. "I'm this block-head teacher's sister, Rin!"
"Oh," Gumi replied, staring from me to Rin, me to Rin, probably trying to catch all the similarities. We stood up and began walking to my house.
"There is obviously the age difference," she said with a smile. "But Len has helped me out more than anyone. He helped me with my studies, he was great at football, and our parents had high hopes in him." Rin looked up at the sky, her eyes distant. "But the stress was to much for him, and he ran away from home."
Is this...the story of Rin's real brother? No, the only thing that matters...is that the one I must kill is standing right before my eyes...now is not the time to be listening to what she is saying!
"In my parents eyes, he was the only one who mattered," Rin continued. "Not long afterwards, I ran away, too. I came here to find my brother."
"Here," Gumi said once we had reached my home, holding out the music box to me.
"Huh?"
"For now, keep it at your house, Mr. Kagamine," Gumi told me. "If I tell them that you bought it for me...they'll just worry. So it's better if I listen to it at your house..."
I smiled at her. "Alright."
Even if she rebels...she's also letting her parents close to her heart...Gumi...
"You really are a good teacher, Len," Rin told me, smiling. She had settled herself in front of a mirror in my bedroom, playing with the music box that now sat there. She looked over her shoulder at me. "Everytime I passed, I would think that. You smile and laugh with your students, and it tells me how much you care about them."
She's...seen me before...?
"I don't know why, but I could never forget your smile," she continued. "It's because your smile was always so sad, like you were in trouble...I always wondered why..." She frowned at me. "And then I discovered your secret."
I looked at her darkly, not speaking.
"I speak to much," she said, moving from where she was sitting to sit on my bed. "But what I said about my brother was true. You...kind of remind me of him."
"And then what...?" I asked. "Did you find your brother?"
"No."
Why...?
She smiled, but it looked sad and full of regret. "I don't think we'll ever meet."
Why am I still talking to her...?
"Oh, yes!" she exclaimed, pulling some money out of her pocket. "This is all of the money you gave to me, right? I'm returning it to you..."
I must kill this girl! I must kill her...!
She held it out to me.
...is it alright if I don't kill her?
I was taken aback when Rin suddenly threw the money down and tackled me, taking me by surprise as I landed on the bed. "This is...revenge for yesterday!" Her eyes were dark, soulless. "Have you thought of people like me, who's hearts also get hurt? Do you think I like what I do?"
Her eyes...
"What pride can we have?" she cried. "It's better to just forget that!" Her eyes once again became distant. "But...if it's with someone else, I can handle that..."
Her eyes will steal my soul away!
"But you..." she whispered, caressing my cheek and leaning closer. "Only you...I can handle if you treat me that way!"
I stared at her, my eyes wide, as she continued. "You said before that it was 'disgusting'. And you are right," she told me. "But...why would humans do this to each other for pleasure?
"Everyone goes around trying to find their soul mate...but, no matter how hard they look, they can never find it."
"So, instead, they force to bodies together."
"...it's funny, isn't it? Strange...and sad."
"Everyone wants to use that short time together to open their hearts, even if it's just a one night dream they bought with money..."
"...I hate doing it, but I also like it!"
She leaned downed, running her hand through my hair as she brought her lips to my neck. "No...I can't..." I whispered. "I..I have to kill you!"
"Fine, then, kill me!" she cried.
Cook me for a day and night...make me into stew.
She unbuttoned my shirt, throwing off her jacket.
When my entire body has been eaten by you, I sha'll truly belong to you...
She took off her shirt, proceeding to discard me of the rest of my clothing herself.
I'll become your blood and flesh.
I pressed my lips against hers.
If we join together like this, you'll be able to reach my heart...
"I was born in a carnival."
Mother always told me this.
She never cared for me.
She never loved me.
But I loved her. I loved her so much.
And it angered me so to watch her do what she did.
But I hated her, too.
I hated her so much!
She was a liar, and a cheat.
She cheated me, and every man she's ever been with.
I guess you can say that's what caused her death...
Her murder.
By the hands of her own son.
She scarred me...scarred me for life.
That's why...that's why I search for people who sell their body like my mother did.
They're dirty, and...I start to hate them...I hate them so much!
I can't stop stabbing with the knife!
They use those dirty eyes to look at me!
I have to blind them!
If I don't, I'll go mad!
No matter how hard I crawl, struggle...
I can't get out...
It's no use...
"Who are you killing?" Rin asked my, grabbing my wrists and pushing me back down. "Your mother? People who sell their bodies? Or..." She looked me in the eye. "Is it...yourself?" I stared at her. "It's enough now...you don't have to kill anymore." She gently kissed my forehead. "You've been forgiven..." She hugged me. "So forgive yourself!"
Too my surprise, I felt my eyes fill up with tears. "You're...you're not scared of me? Not one bit?" I chuckled darkly to myself. "You're strange, Rin...too strange..." She held me in her arms as I sobbed.
"Yeah," she smiled at me, rubbing my back comfortingly. "Let me be crazy with you!"
I don't have to...I don't have to kill myself like this anymore...
"My murderer..."
Breakfast...
Lunch...
Dinner...
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Dessert...