Feeling an immense sense of pride incomparable to any other misdeed she ever had committed in the past, Yuka Miyakawa slowly exited the room reserved for prisoners underneath Teasers a day after she brought a "guest" back to see Kagami, though this "guest" never saw her sister. She kept this new frightened and distraught guest as her prisoner for nearly twenty-four hours now and the mental torture didn't stop once. As soon as she exited the room, she closed the large iron door and locked it as water dripping from the moldy ceiling splashed all around her, adding more of a truly decrepit and putrid visual to the already dank setting. She continued to giggle to herself as she stood and realized her hands were still coated in a fresh red liquid. The depraved sociopath took a handkerchief out of her back pocket and wiped the liquid away. She was disappointed this liquid wasn't blood because she craved its taste again.
Miyakawa heard a familiar sound come from one of the rooms. She glanced down the hallway and could hear Kagami crying and screaming in agony and her only response was to laugh. Miyakawa slowly strolled over to the door Kagami was behind and waited a few more minutes until the doorknob turned and nine young men waltzed out, one of them fixing his zipper over his pants.
"How was she?" Miyakawa asked with a conniving smile, her arms folded across her chest, and leaning against the moldy cement wall.
The young men laughed and one of them said, "Best fuck in awhile for us."
"We may be the local baseball team, but I think we were all the pitchers tonight and she was the catcher!" Another laughed.
"I never thought one girl would be able to handle an entire sports team but goddamn she proved us wrong!" A third one added with a satisfied smirk.
Miyakawa nodded with a giggle. "Anyway hope to see you boys back here soon. Enjoy her anytime you want."
The baseball team agreed to come back for Kagami again one day and left the underground hallway and Miyakawa looked into the room. It had a grim and grotesque setup like the rest of them with a single dirty mattress in the middle of an empty room, where Kagami was resting on. To make the setup even more horrifying, her left arm was shackled to the wall with the rusty metal cuff holding her wrist tight as she panted and sweated on the mattress, a single stained and tattered sheet covering her naked body. For more than entire day, Miyakawa had Kagami chained to this wall and she suffered through rounds of forced prostitution one right after another and it never stopped. To keep her mental torture of Kagami alive, Miyakawa only gave her one meal within the last day and no drugs so Kagami was not only suffering through the prostitution, she was also suffering through the withdrawal as she was being forced into the acts.
Miyakawa entered the room and stood above her and looked down at Kagami. The ailing Hiiragi twin was sweating and flushed everywhere as she cried on the mattress and when she saw Miyakawa standing above her with a small grin, Kagami buried her face in the rotten cushion and wailed louder. Hearing Kagami's sorrowful yelps and watching her tremble only sent waves of pulsating euphoria throughout Miyakawa's hollowed corpse of a living body and she slowly bent down and reached out. She stroked Kagami's head, making her tremble harder.
"Aw…I'm sorry, Kagami. Jocks are the worst, aren't they? They have no respect for the fragility of your womanhood. I bet they tore you up pretty good down there. I bet it looks like a blood-covered train wreck. And you thought you were ugly before…" Miyakawa taunted with a grin.
Kagami slowly showed her face again and through her tear-drenched eyes, she uttered, "…Why…Yuka…why? Why are you…doing this…to me…? I want…to go…home…"
"Oh my precious Kagami…you are home." Miyakawa laughed again. "There's no escape."
Kagami tightened a glare on her face and grinded her teeth as Miyakawa pulled her hand away from stroking the twin-tailed Hiiragi. "You can't keep me here forever. You can't keep your eyes on me at all times. The very second you let your guard down, I'm going to make a run for it and tell the police everything, even if I'm arrested too for all that I've done."
To Kagami's never-ending horror when dealing with Miyakawa, she deepened her smile. "You're right, Kagami. Sooner or later, I will let my guard down and you'll escape me. But I must warn you, Kagami, I know where you live and I know the faces of everyone in your family and your friends thanks to your phone. If you try to escape me, the next time you'll see your family, I will hang them all from the Torii of your family's shrine. Also, I will find that blue-haired midget and mail her to you…one piece at a time."
Kagami's once budding anger was wiped clean again. She knew Miyakawa was telling the truth because how else would she know that Kagami's family lived near a shrine? Also taking into consideration what she did to that teenage boy the other night with the boiling water, Kagami also knew Miyakawa wasn't bluffing when she promised to murder her family. If anything, the Hiiragi family would unfortunately count themselves lucky if all Miyakawa did to them was hang them. Kagami also had no choice but to assume worst case scenario when Miyakawa also told her she knew who her friends were, too as she just demonstrated with Konata.
"You're a monster, Yuka. Coming to you and Ryuji was the biggest mistake I ever made…" Kagami cried softly again. "How can you do this to innocent people…?"
Miyakawa huffed. "There are no innocent people in this world, Kagami. We're all guilty of something whether we know it or not. If there were innocent people in the world, places like this wouldn't exist now would they?"
Silence was Kagami's only response until she requested, "Let me go…I want to see my sister, Tsukasa."
Miyakawa did her best to try and hide her deep satisfied smile, which would tell Kagami she was once again up to no good. Miyakawa rose to her feet again and replied, "Oh I have a feeling you two will reunite soon enough…and it'll be a reunion to remember. Now get ready, your next customer is waiting…and keep crying; it's sexy. I also heard he's into that 'father-daughter' role-playing shit so make sure you call him daddy and enjoy! And don't forget, you also have to dance tonight…or I'll kill you!"
Miyakawa pranced happily out of the room, just as another middle-aged man came down the rickety steps and met Miyakawa. He was around Tadao Hiiragi's age with graying hair and wrinkles, as well as several moles around his face and he asked, "Is she ready?"
"Chained and crying like a scared little girl. Go make your daughter feel better!" Miyakawa exclaimed while keeping her smile and the man nodded.
Miyakawa watched him enter the room and slam the door shut again, sealing him inside with Kagami and the depraved girl giggled again and rejoined the rest of the action upstairs in Teasers.
Ryuji was attending the bar as their boss in Itou Shiraki was busy taking care of his deceased brother though both men were unhappy with Miyakawa's recent antics. Still, Miyakawa felt a never-ending rush of adrenaline and power that mirrored her drug addiction and she stripped down. She stripped out of her skirt and top, revealing her lingerie underneath and before she would hit the poles again, she could see Ryuji wanted a word with her as he was waving at her from across the club.
Miyakawa maneuvered through the sordid atmosphere past whistling and hooting customers as they sat and watched other girls Miyakawa had corrupted dance and perform other acts for them until she sat at the bar. Disregarding her cousin's anger, Miyakawa leaned forward and snapped, "Vodka. Straight. I want a little buzz before I dance and show these pathetic deadbeats my fun bags."
Ryuji on the other hand glared at his cousin and shook his head. "What the hell were you thinking kidnapping that Hiiragi girl like that?! It's bad enough we've got those fucking gangbangers hunting our asses now you kidnapped Kagami's sister?! Cops are going to be all over this district now looking for her since they believe she just came to visit Kagami!"
Miyakawa wasn't worried about her cousin's flustered outburst since the heavy music and female distractions kept any potential prying eyes and ears off them. She shrugged and replied casually with no remorse, "Trust me, my precious cousin. Everything I do is part of a plan."
"Is spending the next twenty-five to life behind bars part of your plan? That's twenty-five to life if we're lucky! I wouldn't be surprised if the cops that just shot us on the spot when they find us. You especially!" Ryuji snapped back.
"Call it…an insurance policy. Kagami will continue to resist us until I'm either forced to kill her or she kills herself…or worst case scenario she does escape and makes it home. Before any of that happens though…all that I'm doing downstairs with Tsukasa is going to keep Kagami from ratting us out to any cocksucking cops. Kagami needs to know that no matter where she goes and no matter how hard she tries…I will always be able to touch her and the ones she loves." Miyakawa informed with a grin towards the end.
Ryuji sighed and shook his head again. "Is Tsukasa even still alive down there?"
Miyakawa's face remained unchanged. "Define alive."
"Yuka!"
"Yes, she's alive. More or less alive. I don't know she looked like she was ready to have a seizure in there when I gave her a choice between getting a tattoo, a hot-iron brand, or a slashed throat." Miyakawa replied and even laughed a bit as she reminisced about her hour long session with her prisoner downstairs. "By the way…does Itou still have that chainsaw in the storage closet? I'm going to need to borrow it for my next little chat with Tsukasa."
Ryuji projected both a perplexed and even disgusted face at his cousin. Still fearful of her though, he reluctantly answered, "I…I think so. Just answer me this at least. Are you going to kill them when you're done with them?"
Miyakawa slowly lowered her head and allowed her colored bangs to cover her face. Her mouth was still visible and Ryuji inadvertently gulped when he saw her form her trademark sadistic grin and reply, "Define kill…"
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Since her violent attack by one of her closest friends, Miyuki Takara had undergone another surgery to try and fix her eyes but the outlook for took a grim turn towards the end. The glass shards still lodged in her left eyeball had caused irreversible damage to the retinas and the doctors couldn't remove them in time. Miyuki was now permanently blind in one eye. To keep the infection in her eyeball from spreading to either her other eye or to her brain, the surgeons had to remove it from her head altogether.
Konata Izumi arrived at the hospital with a bundle of flowers later that day, though she had to admit that she was torn on going at all. In reality, there was no good news or words of encouragement Konata could give Miyuki that could possibly make her feel better and now to make matters worse, Tsukasa was missing and the Hiiragi family was an official wreck just like their home. Of course, Miyuki also knew that it was Kagami who attacked her and yet she still had no explanation as to why. Everyone knew that Miyuki only had the best intentions for Kagami when she first let her into her home but Konata couldn't even begin to comprehend how Miyuki's parents broke the news to her about her eye and that she wouldn't be going to school in France.
The blue-haired girl knocked on Miyuki's door gently, almost reluctantly and when she heard the soft and weak voice reply, "Come in," she knew she had no choice but to pursue. Konata slowly opened the door and saw Miyuki Takara sitting in her bed with a series of white bandages wrapped around her head and covering her left eye. She closed a book and sat it down and Konata felt a little better about this unexpected visit when she saw her battered friend form a small smile.
"Konata-san…what a pleasant surprise." Miyuki whispered with her usual sweet tone that everyone missed.
Konata smiled back and saw the other bundles of flowers surrounding her other side of the hospital bed along with balloons, stuffed animals, and a few boxes of candies. Konata cleared her throat and said, "I brought you these flowers but it looks like you already have enough presents to even put the gift shop on the ground floor out of business."
Miyuki giggled slightly. "Thank you very much. I'm just so grateful to be surrounded by so many people who love me. Minami-chan even bought me a box of genuine French chocolates online and had them delivered to my room here. They were so delicious."
The blue-haired otaku nodded and placed her recent addition of flowers along with the rest and sat down next to Miyuki. "How are you feeling, Miyuki-san?"
"I'm still a little woozy from the surgery medication, but I'm okay. The doctors said that I'll be able to keep my right eye so I'm so grateful for that, too." Miyuki answered. "Thank you for visiting me, Konata-san."
"You're welcome, Miyuki." Konata replied softly.
Konata tried her best to listen to every word and tone that was spoken within them and was searching. She tried to search for any hints or euphemisms that projected any kind of anger or resentment towards either Kagami or the world for letting such an awful fate bestow itself onto her. However, Konata only grew more and more surprised when she couldn't find anything vicious in Miyuki's voice. Miyuki still spoke as if she wasn't attacked at all and that she was still going to France. What Miyuki asked next only further baffled Konata yet it still somehow didn't entirely surprise her.
"Please tell me, Konata-san…how is Kagami-san? Is she okay? Is she safe?" Miyuki asked once again with sincerity and genuine concern for her attacker.
"Mi…Miyuki…" Konata stuttered. "She…she attacked you. She did this to you. She's the reason why you are here and why you're not going to…why are you concerned about her?!"
Miyuki sighed. "Kagami-san…she isn't well. What she has…addiction is an illness and she's suffering, too. No matter what I still see her as my friend and I want her to get better."
Konata slowly shook her head. "How do you do it, Miyuki?"
"Do what?"
"How are you able to still be yourself despite all that has happened to you?" Konata asked, still unable to comprehend everything Miyuki said earlier. "If it was the average person, I believe they would be demanding that the police hunt Kagami down, throw her in jail and send the key to the moon."
Miyuki slowly shook her head. "No, Konata-san, I could never feel that way about Kagami-san. To answer your question about how I can still be myself…I can only say one thing regarding such a notion. Life is beautiful…and it's too short to carry around your grudges and hate for your fellow humans, especially your friends. I can also still be myself despite all that I have lost because I can still count all that I still have. I may have lost my left eye, but I still have my right and I can still read my books, I'm surrounded by all my friends and I can see how much they care about me, and when I see gestures like you simply coming to visit me, I can only see the good and the beauty in this world, Konata-san. It's people like you that keeps hope alive for me and for others in my position…so thank you again, Konata-san. Thank you for giving me hope."
Deeply touched by Miyuki's words, Konata sighed. "Oh Miyuki…"
Miyuki simply smiled back and outstretched her hand and Konata connected it with hers. The two friends held each other's hands and now Konata was having second thoughts again about telling Miyuki about the missing Tsukasa Hiiragi and how the police were already labeling it as a kidnapping. The last thing Konata wanted to do was pour cold water all over the warm and deep sentiment Miyuki spoke regarding the beautify she saw in the world, especially when it involved the abduction and god knows what else involving one of the purest souls anyone had ever known. Still, she needed Miyuki's advice on the matter. Since Miyuki was still her old self despite everything she was put through, Konata hoped that the pink-haired girl would be able to come through for her once again.
"Miyuki?"
"Yes?"
"Kagami's family is absolutely devastated by what she did to you and I was hoping I could ask for your advice on something. How do I help them?" Konata asked, perking a look of curiosity from Miyuki. "I feel so useless and pathetic watching them from the sidelines while they're entire existence falls apart. What can I do for them, Miyuki?"
Miyuki simply smiled and cupped Konata's hands and gently massaged them. "Sometimes when people are going through horrible circumstances like the Hiiragi family is…just simply being there is more than enough. Make your presence known and that they're not alone in their suffering because you love Kagami-san too…right?"
Konata nodded though she was still reluctant to do so.
"Well then, I believe that that is the best way you can help them. By simply being a friend during the good times…and a shoulder to cry on and a pair of ears to listen during the bad times." Miyuki added. "I'm sure you've heard the old saying 'misery loves company' before…but it doesn't always have to be so grim. Just let them know that you're not going anywhere and that you'll never judge them, scrutinize them, or even ostracize them for the mistakes Kagami-san is making. Sometimes friendship is the greatest gift you can give someone…even in the darkest of times. My friendship with you, your cousin, Mi-chan, and everyone else is one of the many things that are getting me through this unfortunate turn of events in my life."
Konata sighed again and nodded, trying to maintain her inner emotional strength and not cry before the battered Miyuki Takara. The blue-haired girl had made numerous comparisons to Miyuki being rich and upscale to her conflicting simple lifestyle before, but Konata could now truly see how simple Miyuki was herself. Despite Miyuki's luxurious upbringing, she could still connect with her fellow man in the simplest and purest ways possible. Any other rich and persnickety person would simply try and buy friendship or buy off unhappiness with material goods, but not Miyuki. Even though the worst of humanity's possibilities had taken so much of her life away, she still maintained her principles and knew that the world around her was bigger than she was, as were the people in it she was honored to call her family and friends. To Miyuki, her friends were the greatest and most luxurious possessions she had in her life and she knew this was true because each and every one of them was one of a kind and couldn't be replaced by another.
"And Konata-san…could I ask you a favor?" Miyuki asked and Konata couldn't help but notice the change in Miyuki's tone from confident to reluctance.
"Anything, Miyuki, anything."
"Could…could you possibly close the blinds on my window for me? The sun is setting and it shines right in my face. Even now I'm very sensitive about bright lights in my face. It's so embarrassing." Miyuki whimpered with a slight blush on her face.
Despite the ghastly situation the two friends were in, Konata couldn't help but feel that a sliver of their old existences had just revealed itself to them. The blue-haired girl chuckled as she stood to help her friend and she exclaimed, "Okay now that was a moe moment!"
Miyuki simply tilted her head in confusion while releasing a complementing grunt to illustrate her lost train of thought when dealing with Konata. For now, Konata decided to keep the issue of Tsukasa missing to herself. The last thing she wanted to do was not only discourage and void Miyuki's earlier deep sentiments, but she also didn't want to ruin this nostalgic moment between the two of them.
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Never in her entire life since Matsuri's and Misao's deaths did Kagami want to die so badly. How many men was she forced to satisfy today because of Yuka Miyakawa's influence? She lost count at forty-seven around the time the baseball team from earlier this morning arrived to pay her a visit. At least now she was free from the nauseating horrors of the secluded room that doubled as a dungeon for her but her night was still far from over. She still had to perform her usual stripping routine and now sat on an old barstool waiting for her turn to dance.
Even though she was still suffering from withdrawal from the lack of drugs, the excruciating process was beginning to show one clear thing to Kagami; how truly depraved she had allowed herself to become. That also wasn't without its downside. Even though Kagami was beginning to once again see everything clearly, it only made her want the drugs even more to take all the pain and guilt away. In the beginning, her experimentation with drugs was only to help her deal with the deaths of her sister and friend but it metastasized into something much more grotesque since then. Now she not only wanted the drugs to forget about those deaths, but she now needed them to erase her infinite shame and misery for what she had done to herself.
As she sat in her wardrobe for tonight's dance, she only felt more miserable. Miyakawa took Kagami's Miko outfit and butchered it with scissors and a sewing machine and turned into lingerie. Kagami still remembered when her father gave her this outfit. It was a sacred wardrobe and it meant a lot to him and the Hiiragi family and now she was desecrating it by using it as a sexual fetish for certain men. She trembled and dripped cold sweat from her withdrawal as the violent pulsing of the bass music on the other side of the curtains kept the activity in the club alive.
With nothing but her self-damaging thoughts to keep her company, the backdoor of Teasers suddenly flew open, making Kagami jump when the metal door struck the bricks. The bang it created suddenly brought the memories of the shootout back and Kagami knew she was suffering from post-traumatic stress as a result. What stepped inside the building however made Kagami shriek and duck again, though no one heard her scream as she was alone and the music outside covered her initial cries of fear.
A figure stepped in through the open doorway and was holding a silent but still smoking chainsaw and the tool as well as the person holding it were both covered in a red liquid. Kagami's heart pounded even harder when Yuka Miyakawa stepped into the light and revealed herself to be the one with the powerful weapon. From head to toe, Miyakawa was covered in the dripping red liquid, as was her smoking chainsaw and she had a blank look on her face, as if she was out for a walk and nothing else.
She turned her head when she saw Kagami cowering behind the old barstool, she smiled and hissed, "Hey, baby! Ready for your dance?!"
"Yu…Yuk…Yuka…what are you…covered in…?" Kagami stuttered and had a sinking feeling she already knew the answer though she hoped she was wrong.
"Blood. Why do you ask?" Miyakawa asked again with a causal tone and grin like it was nothing.
Feeling her stomach tighten, Kagami covered her mouth and took a few deep breaths before she added, "What…what were you…doing?"
"Oh I was just paying a visit to our latest guest downstairs. Remember that little prepubescent gangbanger I boiled like a fucking egg? I found someone even more fun to play with down there and better yet…she's a screamer." Miyakawa giggled.
Kagami panted and turned away as Miyakawa wiped the blood from off her face. To think that a girl like her could so easily take human life and feel happiness when doing it truly made Kagami fear for her life and Miyakawa's earlier words still echoed in her mind. Kagami was trapped. No matter what she did or where she went, Miyakawa would simply hunt her family and friends down and turn them inside-out. Kagami could now see all of Miyakawa's plan. In the beginning, Kagami had sex for money for the drugs, then she started having it for pleasure with Miyakawa, now she was going to be forced to have it so her friends and family could live. Kagami had walked straight into her trap and was still smart enough to see that all the other girls at Teasers and some out on the streets had similar fates to hers because of Miyakawa's twisted and sadistic mind.
"By the way…you'll be dancing to my second favorite song of all time tonight so you should feel honored." Miyakawa hissed as Kagami looked up just in time to see her slide a blood-soaked finger into her own mouth and consume the red liquid, only furthering Kagami's disgust. Miyakawa soon removed her finger from her mouth and added with a wink, "And if you fuck it up…you'll have to do it all over again and to my number one favorite song of all time…and I don't think you'll like that very much, Kagami. Trust me…there will be a surprise to that one."
The twin-tailed Hiiragi continued to tremble like a leaf as she retracted into a ball and kept shaking and dripping water from her eyes and forehead. She could only hug herself tighter and rock herself on the dirty floor and wait until it was her time. However, as she sat on the ground, the world Kagami was a part of truly penetrated into her soul when she concocted a thought. Miyakawa said the only way to escape her new life of drugs and prostitution was death…but what if Kagami took the initiative and made death come suddenly though not for her…but for Miyakawa herself? Kagami never in her entire life had a homicidal thought about anyone, yet here she sat on the floor of a strip club and was giving serious consideration to killing Miyakawa herself. Maybe then she and everyone she cared about would be free from this wicked girl's putrid and conniving mind.
Kagami gave it so much thought that she didn't notice it was now her time to get out and dance. She knew that if she didn't Miyakawa would take the initiative herself and kill her so Kagami weakly pulled herself to her feet and took several deep breaths as she approached the drawn curtain. She already had a sinking feeling this was going to be a disaster since she was scared, going through withdrawal, and her old self that was once locked away deep in her brain and buried by the drugs was resurfacing and was truly asking Kagami what the fuck she was doing here.
"Give it up for everyone's favorite shrine maiden, Kagami Hiiragi!" Ryuji's voice announced and the curtain's parted and Kagami was swallowed by a blast of bright lights and cheering men.
In her butchered Miko outfit that now draped over Kagami in shards revealing her midsection, bare legs, arms, and barely covering her breasts and groin, she slowly trembled out onto the center stage and latched onto the pole. The song ripped through the club and Kagami remembered Miyakawa telling her it was her second favorite song, which was Marilyn Manson's song "Disposable Teens." Kagami weakly swung from the pole and right away Ryuji and his cousin at the bar watching could tell something was wrong with her. Kagami's face showed nothing but pure fright from all the eyes staring at her borderline naked body, most of whom were her father's age.
Kagami only swung around the pole once until she suddenly froze and hugged it, almost trying to use it as a shield and she couldn't take it anymore. Her eyes flooded and reality finally hit home completely when she looked into the eyes of the men pointing and laughing at her. She was their object; their source of amusement. She felt like a trained animal in a zoo doing tricks for treats but instead it was for cash for drugs. Kagami released her tears and started crying as she held onto the pole and slowly slid down and fell to her knees, changing the reaction of the crowd. An eighteen year old girl who had lost her big sister and friend shortly after one of her most momentous accomplishments was now involved in a life of drugs and prostitution and crying her eyes out and even whispering for her mother to swoop in and save her was sitting before all of them.
Kagami cupped her eyes with her hand as she gritted her teeth in pure anguish and whispered over the metal song, "I want my mommy…I'm just a scared little girl who wants to go home…someone please…save me…"
"Get up and dance, bitch!" One of the men in the audience shouted. "Get up and show us what your mama gave you if you want your money!"
Kagami only retracted tighter on the stage's floor around the pole and kept crying.
"Didn't you hear?! Get up and dance! That's your job! You're our entertainment!" Another shouted from the audience.
Kagami slowly lifted her head, showing her crying face to everyone and whispered, "I'm…I'm not an…object. I'm a young woman…please stop…stop all of this…no one deserves to be swinging from this pole…"
As the two depraved cousins exchanged annoyed looks with each other, the inevitable came next. The men in the audience started booing Kagami and started to hurl whatever they could at her. It started with shot glasses still filled with alcohol and Kagami tried to dodge them as she quickly sprung to her feet. Snack food and bowls holding them soon started landing on the stage around her as she kept shrieking and as she turned to run, a beer bottle came flying from the crowd and struck her against her head, shattering.
Kagami screamed and held her head as she ran with all her might down the stage and disappeared behind the curtains as the song kept playing while the boos from the crowd rivaled the lyrics. Even though Kagami was gone, they still kept throwing whatever they could at her until Miyakawa rolled her eyes and decided she had enough.
"Do something." She ordered Ryuji and got off her stool and bypassed the angry mob and walked through the curtains.
"Alright folks we apologize for that inconvenience so next round of drinks are on the house!" Ryuji said into the microphone, immediately calming the mob and the activity began to return to normal.
Miyakawa walked through the dressing area behind the curtain and found Kagami huddled under a table and crying loudly. She could see a blood trail leading to Kagami and assumed it was from the beer bottle and she rolled her eyes while shaking her head and walked towards the sobbing Hiiragi twin.
"That was pathetic, Kagami." Miyakawa snapped as she stood above her. "Now you're going to have to make it up."
Kagami slowly lifted her head, revealing a sickening bloody gash across her head from the glass. She cried deeply while hiccupping, "Just…just let me…go. I won't tell…anyone about…this place. I…swear…"
Before Miyakawa could reply, Ryuji joined them in the back and caught their attention. He glanced at Kagami and said, "So what's going on?"
Miyakawa shook her head. "She fucked up the dance. Where were you when it happened you dumbass?"
Ryuji rolled his eyes.
"Looks like there's going to be a change in plans for Kagami. I think we should finally get down to it and—" Miyakawa started but suddenly froze and abruptly formed a look of genuine perplexity.
"What? What's wrong, Yuka?" Ryuji asked while tilting his head.
"I smell something." Miyakawa replied as she began sniffing the air. "I smell something…bad. For business."
"Bad for business? What are you talking about—" Ryuji began but suddenly paused and glanced at Kagami, who suddenly gulped as she bled and cried on the floor. "Is it coming from Kagami?"
Miyakawa quickly turned her head and formed a look of pure hatred, making Kagami fear her number was finally called. The one Kagami once thought she could trust suddenly dropped to her knees, grabbed her, and forced her on her back. Kagami started struggling and screaming again.
"Yuka stop! What are you doing?!" She cried and thrashed until Miyakawa flicked a switchblade knife open in Kagami's face, immediately silencing her.
"Shut your goddamn mouth, Kagami, or I swear to Christ I will cut off your fucking tits and feed them to you! Understand?!" Miyakawa yelled.
Kagami quickly nodded as she continued to cry and Miyakawa resumed her work. To Kagami's increasing panic, Miyakawa placed her face on Kagami's exposed stomach and began sniffing like a dog. She looked as if she was on a quest for something and she didn't stop until she reached the layer of flesh covering Kagami's womb. Miyakawa suddenly inhaled a large whiff and made a sound that made Kagami cringe further.
"What are you…doing, Yuka?" Kagami muttered with overwhelming fear.
Miyakawa suddenly began coughing and when she was finished, she turned to Kagami with a look of even more sinister contempt. "Oh you fucking little bitch! You stupid little whore!"
"What?! What did I do?!" Kagami cried.
Miyakawa sprung to her feet, allowing Kagami to scoot further away from them as Miyakawa grabbed Ryuji and pulled him aside as Kagami backed into a wall and watched with a palpitating heart as the two cousins conversed. Kagami couldn't follow the gist of the conversation but Ryuji suddenly turned his head and looked at her.
He turned back to Miyakawa and replied, "She is?"
Miyakawa nodded.
"Are you absolutely sure?"
"You know I have a nose for that kind of shit."
Ryuji sighed and rubbed his head, only furthering Kagami's bafflement. He opened his mouth and asked, "What do you want to do about it?"
Miyakawa shot another angry look at Kagami until she turned back to her cousin. "Get it out of her. Do whatever you have to. Physical trauma or surgery with a fucking knife! Just do it and do it now!"
Kagami had no idea what was happening but she had yet another sinking feeling she was about to endure more pain. She watched Ryuji nod to Miyakawa, turn to her, and undo his belt. He held it like a whip and started for Kagami. Kagami started panicking again as she tried to back up more but was held in place by the wall as she started crying again while holding her arms up as a surrender mechanism.
"Ryuji, wait! What are you doing?! What did I do?! Is this about the dance?! I'm sorry, okay?! I'm sorry! Please don't hurt me! Don't hurt me!" Kagami screamed as she shook her head and threw more tears.
Ryuji callously grabbed Kagami again and hoisted her up by her hair and started guiding her for a supply closet. As he dragged her to the dark and isolated room, he hissed, "This will teach you for not using the fucking condoms we gave you!"
Kagami didn't hear him over her own screams of pain and fear and she suddenly felt herself get thrown into the supply closet and she collided with a shelf, adding more pain. She sank to the floor and reassumed her position of curling into a ball and holding her arms out as she cried as Ryuji stepped into the closet and slammed the door shut. The heartbreaking sounds of the belt making contact with Kagami's body came next and she kept crying louder and louder, still ignorant as to why she was being treated like this.
As Miyakawa listened to the whips and Kagami's screams of terror and pain, she fished in her pocket and retracted a pack of cigarettes and slid one into her mouth. She lit it and as she exhaled the smoke while still listening to her cousin ravage Kagami, she rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"I fucking hate kids." Miyakawa snarled and turned her back. "A knocked-up prostitute. Talk about a financial shipwreck. Fuck me…"