Slaughter (1)

Aaaaaahh… Everything is so dark here… This is my mind?? Is this where Kira has been all this time?? No. He could see what I was doing and he could also talk with me. It’s just that I still can’t control my mind properly. That’s why I’m here!! This is phase 1 of Manami-sama’s plan!!

*The first phase of the plan. You’ll let Kira take control of your body. You will trick my other me into thinking that she succeeded in stealing your body for Kira. Then, while you are inside, you will learn to use the 100% capacity of your body as Kira did.*

I see… So Manami-sama made me think that Manami-san really wanted to kill me in order to make Kira’s [Trigger Factor] work. Manami-san never wanted to kill me… I’m sure about it… Yeah… Anyway!! Look at me, Manami-sama!! I’ll master my brain and brawn usage in just a day!!!

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A day passed and I was unable to even watch through Kira’s eyes… Better said, our eyes. I’m a failure!!! But wait a moment… Why do I know that a day has passed?? Does this mean that I somehow improved my spatiotemporal sensors??

*Tik, tak, tik, tak, tik, tak*

Wait!! Since when has that clock been there?? This is… a wall??

*Tremors!!! Shaking!!!*

“Waaaaaaaaahhh!!!! What is happening here???!!!!”

*BAM*

A… a room… A four-walled room just appeared around me with a clock placed on one of the walls… This may be!!! A room!! But… How strange… This looks very old. It’s like those rooms from feudal drama series… Anyway, this must be what Manami-sama mentioned in the first part of her plan!!!

*When you get trapped inside your own mind, you’ll need to gain control over it. In order to do that and learn to use 100% of your potential, you will need to generate a familiar space. It’s almost like building your own home inside your head. After that, you will need to connect your senses to feel, hear, taste, see, and smell the same thing as Kira.*

Yes!! This is the first step to regaining control over my body forever!! Now I need to connect all of my senses!! Look at me, Manami-sama!!!

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SHIT!!! SHIT!!! SHIT!!! SHIT!!! SHIT!!! SHIT!!! SHIT!!! SHIT!!! SHIT!!! SHIT!!! SHIT!!! SHIT!!! I can tell that at least another day passed and I still didn’t get another sense to work!! The day of the massacre is coming!! I’m going to fail… I’M GOING TO FAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*BAAAAAARRRFFFFFF!!!*

Eh? I heard it!! Someone is puking… Ugh!!! This reminds me of Shizuka-san… But I do hear it!! It’s that… A telephone!! Is this the materialization of my earring sense activation??!!

*Pick up*

*Hey!! Manami-shit, are you okay??*

Kira-san!!! It’s Kira-san’s voice!! He’s speaking with Manami-san!! She’s the one who’s puking… Ugh!!!

“Yeah!! I’m fine… I think that the milk was spoiled… Just give me a minute and I’ll continue finishing the gas tanks… Barf!!!”

*Okay.* Gross. *I found a cherry lollipop in the bathroom. Do you want it or can I eat it?? Sugar helps my brain to think more efficiently.*

“A lollipo… BAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRFFFFFFFF!!!!!!! DON’T TALK ABOUT FOOD TO ME!!!!”

*Okay, okay… Tomorrow is the day you are planning to kill 200 people. Do you want to postpone it??*

Eh?? Tomorrow?? No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no!!!!!!!!! I still didn’t realize what my [Trigger Factor] is!!!! I need to be able to see through Kira’s eyes before that in order to realize what my [Trigger Factor] is!!!!

*When you connect all your five senses with Kira, you’ll be able to realize what your [Trigger Factor] is. At that moment, you will learn how to take control of your body!! And after that…*

I’m out of time!!! I won’t make it in time!!! I’m sorry Manami-sama… I failed you…

*BAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRFFFFFFFF*

That’s it!!! Manami-san is sick from drinking spoiled milk!!! Maybe she will postpone her plan!!!

“Are you crazy, Kira-kun??? I won’t cancel the plan!!”

Sob…sob… I’m so unlucky!!!

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Today is the day of the massacre… I managed to connect the senses of smell and taste. Kira-san is eating Manami-san’s delicious dinner… Man, this is so good… I have no time to enjoy this!!!! Yesterday I heard them say that they would go at night!! According to the clock in my room… They are about to leave!! I can tell that Kira has been going to school as nothing happened!! He also carried some heavy barrels… They have it all set up for tonight!! I HAVE NO MORE TIME!!! PLEASE!!! OPEN YOUR EEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*XRRRRRRRRRXXXXXXXXXXXRRRRRRRR*

A TV??!! A TV!!! It’s a TV!!! This may be it!! The connection of my sense of sight!! I need to tune it!!

*CREAK… CREAK… ZZZRRRRRRRR… CLICK, CLAK… ZIUMP!!*

Something is forming on the TV!! This is… A white face mask… A white face mask with an inverse pentagram with a word… DETHA?? What is DETHA??

*DEATH*

It’s Kira-san!!! He’s in front of a mirror!! A mirror??

*After connecting your five senses, you need to speak with Kira-san!! It’s not necessary to regain control of your body. But on some occasions, it may be helpful to do it.*

This is how Kira-san communicated with me for the first time!! I need to speak through the mirror!! No… He spoke with my body, but I could see it in the mirror!! I need to make it work!!

“KIRA-SAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!!!!!!!! YOU HEAR ME???????????!!!!!!!!!! KIRA-SAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!” It’s no use… With the mask on, I can’t use the mirror to communicate with him!!! I need to use mental comms!! But I don’t know how!!!

“Kira-kun <3 The time has come!! Our senpais are waiting for us. We need to make them happy and liberate them from the responsibility of being our superiors <3”

*Yeah, yeah, whatever. Let’s finish this off soon.*

*Step, step, step*

*CREAK*

“STOOOOOOOPPP!!!! KIRA-SAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!!!!!”

*Stop*

“Mmmhh?? Why did you stop, Kira-kun?? Did you forget your knife??”

*No. A fly passed near my ear.*

He stopped!! I’m sure!! He heard me!!! Stop Kira- san!! Manami-san is planning to betray you!!

*BAM*

It’s no use… I still don’t control mental comms well enough… I need to hurry up!! I still have time!!

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Kira and Manami reached the Sakuragami academy after their dinner. Inside, around 210 students from the last course were gathered to work on their cultural festival stands.

“EY!! Sakano-kun!! Go grab some chairs already!!”

“What?? Are we still missing more chairs??”

“Yes, we do.”

“But last year, every class got 30 chairs for each. I’m sure that another class has the chairs that we are missing!! I’ll go speak with them!!”

“You are mistaken, Sakano-kun. We spoke with the council president when we asked for an all-nighter to prepare for our last cultural festival. She said that the missing chairs should be at the old abandoned warehouse.”

“Really??? In that old building?? No one goes around there. Why would they have done that?? Tsk!!! Why it has to be me the one who goes there?? The student council should go grab them for us!! It’s their fault!!”

“Just shut up and go, Sakano!!! We are busy here too!!! You want our last cultural festival to be a complete piece of shit?? It starts tomorrow and we are not on time!! There’s no one from the student council here tonight, just us from the last course. We should be grateful that they let us have an all-nighter. So shut-up and go grab the chairs!!”

“Tsk!!! Okay!! I’ll go!!”

*BLAM*

Tsk!!! Shitty-ass student council pricks!! The president is an absolute beauty, but all of her underlings are all very nasty and a bunch of mentally disabled gang!! I’ll shit on their desks and pee on their shoe-lockers, hahahahaha!!! I’ll take care of them later, and I will ruin their reputations before I graduate!! Who do they think I am??? I was thinking of using this night to get closer to Kokonoka-chan. This is my last chance to get closer to my high school crush!!!

*Step, step, step…*

So this is the abandoned warehouse… I’ll just grab the chairs and get back to my business.

*CREAK*

This place is so creepy. What is this smell?? It smells like rotten flesh here!!! And I can’t see shit!!! I’ll use the flashlight from my phone.

*FLASH*

“Much better!! Now the chairs… Ah!! There they are!! Tsk!! I’ll ask the student council president to compensate me for making me come here!! She’ll need to pay me with her perfect body, hehehehe!!!”

*PLAM!!!*

FUCK!!! The chairs fell!!! This is so annoying!! Now I have to bend down to grab them!! I’ll make them pay!!

*Bend down*

Mmmm??? What is this I feel in my neck?? A spiderweb??

*Get up*

*SFX: METAL SQUEAK*

“GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! He-he-he-he-he-heads!!! 4 beheaded heads placed in line!! Are those real?? Wa-wait a minute… This is… Kaneda… And his friends from the baseball team!!! His eyeball… is… moving…”

*Maggot coming out of eyeball*

*BAAAAAARF!!!!*

“What the hell is this??!! So they didn’t kidnap that girl, Sakura, like rumors said!! They were all killed!! I need to call the police right now!!”

*Taptap-Taptap-Taptap-Taptap-Taptap-Taptap-Taptap-Taptap-Taptap*

*Shake shake shake shake shake*

Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My hands won’t stop shaking!!! Come on!!! Pick it up already!!!!!!

*Sakurashi city police department here. What’s your emergency??*

“I-I-I call from the Sakuragumi academy!!! I’m in the backyard of the school, inside the abandoned warehouse!!! Send a unit right ahead!!! I just found a group of behea…”

*STAB!!*

*Drop smartphone*

*Crack*

“...ded… heads… Cough!!!!”

*~You found nothing. I won’t let you put my life in danger.~*

“Se… nd… heeee…………”

*Collapse*

*BAM*

*Grab*

*~BLEEEEEEEERRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!! I was jokiiiiinggggg. Hahahahahahaha!!! You’ve been tricked by the funny clown!!! Fucking useless police!!!~*

*HANG*

*~I’m sorry. But I’m in a hurry. I need to help someone. Consider yourself lucky. You wouldn’t like to be inside the school at this moment. Stay in here and you may survive.~*

*BLAM!!*

*~Testing. Heart-shit do you hear me??~*

“~Heart-eye here <3 Come on, Kira-kun… You can omit the shit sometimes when using the intercom I gave you.~”

*~Yeah yeah, whatever. I blocked all the exits from the high school as you said. I had to get rid of one pig that went out. I stopped him just when he was calling the police. What the hell did you do with the guys that attacked me before the school trip?? He almost ruined your plan!! I had to act stupid on the phone to make the police think it was a prank-call.~*

“~Ooooooohh <3 Thank you, Kira-kun <3 You care so much for my plan to be a success <3 Did you kill him?? Did you see the hope leaving his eyes??~”

*~I stabbed him and locked him inside the warehouse. I don’t think he will get up from that. I’m not your guard dog, you hear me?? Start phase 2 immediately and finish your shitty plan!!~*

“~What about the security guards?? Did you take care of them <3??~”

*~Of course I did!!! I drugged and tied them as you asked me. Who do you think I am??~*

“Kyaaaaaaaaaahhhh <3 I love the way you talk to me, Kira-kun <3 You are so cold <3 I can’t help but melt. We are going to be best friends forever <3”

*I told you already!! We are not friends!! This is the first and last time I will ever help you. After this, our ways will tear apart!! So, stop wasting my time and start working!!*

“~Then, I’ll release the sleeping gas <3 Don’t come in until I tell you so <3 We will meet at point C for phase three <3~”

*BAAAAAARRRFFF!!!*

This girl acts like a professional. She planned all this by herself. Planning to kill 200 students one by one in just one night is a serious business. But she just keeps puking everywhere!! She better not leave any traces after all of this is over!!!

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“Kira-saaaann…”

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“Kira-saaaaaaaaaaann!!! I know you can hear me!!! Stop!! Stop Manami-san!! She’s planning to betray you!!!” Aaahh… Is no use!! I need him to look straight at a reflective surface!! I still don’t have enough control on the mental comms!! God please, help me!!

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At the same time, the Sakurashi police department was almost empty because it was past the working hours for most of the personnel. The one who picked up the call was Kaizaki.

*~... Fucking useless police!!!~*

*Piii… pii… piii…*

Aaaaaahhh… Another prank-call from those kids. Don’t they realize that these murders are a serious thing?? They started to use voice modifiers as well!! I’ll track their calls and have a talk with their parents!!! You’ll see, damned brats!!!

“Who was it, Matsutani??”

“Ah! Yamazaki-san!! It was just a prank-call, don't worry.”

“What did they say??”

“Something about the old warehouse from Sakuragami academy. He said to send a unit because he found a group of something. Then he used a voice modifier to mock me. The same thing they have been doing the whole week.”

“I see… Matsugoto!!! Pick up your things!! We are going to the Sakuragami academy!!!”

WHAT????

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I don’t get it… What are we doing here?? We received a lot of fake calls about fake killings this week. We stopped going to the reported sites because every time we got there, they were empty. Why did Yamazaki-san respond to this call?? “This may be the old warehouse, Yamazaki-san.”

*FLASH*

*Search… Inspect… Step, step, step…*

“Everything is clear on the outside, Matsukono.”

“What is this smell?? It smells awful!!!”

*Heavy breathing… heavy breathing*

“A breathing?? It is coming from the inside, Yamazaki-san!!”

“Open the door, Matsuda!! He might be in danger!!”

“IF YOU HEAR ME, MOVE ASIDE!!! I’LL BREAK DOWN THE DOOR!!!”

*RUN!!*

*BLAM!!!!*

“A boy!! He’s been stabbed, Yamazaki-san!! He’s still breathing… But his pulse rate is weak!! He lost a lot of blood!! We need to call for an ambulance!!” Fuck!!! So the murderer must be near… So the homeless man wasn’t the culprit!!! He’s still being retained at the preventive prison. Yamazaki-san was right all this time!! From the beginning!! Oshino and Manami could still be looking for victims at school!!! I’ll let Yamazaki-san wait for the ambulance, and I’ll go stop them!! I just need inspector Yamazaki to call for help!! But… What is he doing???

*Search… search… empty*

“It can’t be… I ran out of red lollipops… I thought I still had one cherry lollipop in my gabardine… It may be… When we raided Butagami’s home…”

“Yamazaki-san!! This is not the time to eat lollipops!! Call an ambulance!! He’s still breathing!! The injury wasn’t deep enough to reach any vital area!! But the blood loss weakened him!!”

“Kaizaki… Just say that you have red lollipops with you…”

“Sorry sir!! I don’t!! Why do you keep speaking about sweets in this situation?? What’s the matt…” Wait a minute!!! He said my name correctly???!!! What is happening??!!!

“RUN!!! KAIZAKI!!!!”

My name again?? “Run?? Why?? Are we surrounded or something??? Are Oshino or Manami near us??”

*Search… Nothing*

How strange… I can’t see anyone near us. I’m worried about Yamazaki-san. He’s behaving strangely. I need to know what this is all about!!! “Yamazaki-san. We need to call an ambulance and keep moving. The murderer could be inside the academy right now…”

*Tell me, Kaizaki-kun. Have you heard about the Sakuragami Syndrome?*

“Yes. Actually, you mentioned it some days ago. But you didn’t elaborate on it. I found some info about being some kind of mental disorder.” Yamazaki-san’s voice changed?? It sounds more deep and menacing than before!!

*RIP… GROW… BULK*

*It is said that people who study in this academy, after living through certain traumatic events, develop second personalities. In some cases, even multiple ones.*

Why is Yamazaki-san’s body growing like that?? His hair is also getting longer!!! What is this all about!!???

*But they are mistaken. We are not second personalities… We are main personalities too.*

“We?? Yamazaki-san!!! What is happening to your body!!?? I’ll call for an ambulance!! So please, sit down and relax!!” I don’t understand what he says!! But I am certain that he also needs help!!

*CRREEEEEZZZSXXAA*

“Kaizaki here. We need an ambulance at…”

*DEMONIC PRESENCE*

“Eh? Yamazaki-san…??”

*BAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

*CRACK!!!*

"UUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!!!!"

*Bleed*

*PLAF!!*

*Aaaaah!! I always knew that your bone structure was pathetic. It broke just with a punch. Sleep for a while, Kaizaki-kun.*

*TERRIFYING SMILE*

*Hand cracking sounds*

*SOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! It’s been a long time since I last came out!! The old Yamazaki played well with all those lollipops for the last 40 years!! But it was about time for him to make a mistake!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! It’s good that he ran out of red lollipops, so it was me the one who came out!! Now then!! It’s time to see as much blood as I can to keep control of the body for much longer!! I bet this high school is full of skulls waiting to be crushed. It’s time for Chizaki to play again!!!*

*Nightmarish grin*