Chapter 2:

She was like a mirror...

Under The Shattered Eclipse


Well, they are now walking without any clue. Hiroshi thought of taking her to the cafe shop. Well, its not Hiroshi's plan, but his friends'. And they can't get any more awkward than this.

According to the plan, Hiroshi takes her to a cat cafe. You might be thinking, why cat cafe? Why not any other normal cafes? Well, to say in short, the cat cafe was the closest to them than any other cafes. So he choose cat cafe. Don't know if the cat cafe is a pretty good choice or not, especially when he is gonna kill her afterwards.

They were drinking coffee. Well, only Hiroshi was. She was petting a cat on her lap. She likes the coffee moderately hot instead of burning hot, thats why she let the coffee cool for a bit before she drank it. In the meantime, a cat got up her lap and she started petting it.

Hiroshi notices her. She looks mature and calm. Completely different from how she was in the group date. You can even say, she is now a little seductive. Her body movements tell that. Well, Hiroshi being Hiroshi, doesn't fall for her tricks and tactfully avoids them. He is not single because he can't get girlfriend, he is single because he chose to not have any.

After some time, Yuki decides to take a sip of coffee. Hiroshi was looking the other way. He was looking at a couple. He is memorising their faces so that he can kill them later. Seeing this, Yuki's gaze turned cold again. She was thinking that he was looking at another girl. Some suspicion deep inside her became even stronger that before. Well, any girl would be suspicious if their guy was looking at another girl, right? Right?

Hiroshi finished drinking his coffee first. While Yuki was drinking her coffee, she asked him something,

"U-um, theres a place that I've never visited before. W-would you mind if we go there together?"

Hiroshi noticed something. Yuki was stuttering less than before. Maybe she feels comfortable to speak with Hiroshi more? That didn't matter tho. Later that night, she was gonna be dead meat anyway.

In honour of Yuki's last date with any guy, Hiroshi decides to accept her invitation and go to that place. Yuki reveals that its the new amusement park that opened recently, and she has been longing to go there. Hiroshi is seriously going to be bankrupt today...

After some time Yuki finishes her coffee and both of them starts for the amusement park. The amusement park was pretty close to the cat cafe. Hiroshi was surprised that he didn't notice it earlier. Amusement park usually mean couples hanging out together, so its a perfect place for him to target couples and kill them. He is planning of killing couples, although he and Yuki are now couples too...

They arrived at the amusement park, it sure was beautiful. But it doesn't compare to the beauty of Yuki. While they were walking along the amusement park, they were attracting a lot of attention. I mean, both are good looking. But Yuki seems to have no trouble in handling all that attention. She was like a mirror, reflecting all those attention like its nothing.

One the other hand, looks like our introverted Hiroshi is in trouble. He doesn't know how to deal with it. But Yuki decides to act as a shield for Hiroshi. Jealousy, I guess? Maybe she was thinking that other girls might steal Hiroshi from her?

They were going on some rides and doing anything a normal couple would do, but Hiroshi was memorising the faces of his future victims along with it. He was pretty unfazed during most of the rides, but Yuki seemed pretty nervous when they got on rides. She was pretty scared too after the rides ended, and ended up clinging on to Hiroshi in fear.

Everything was going smoothly, but problem arose when Yuki wanted to ride the ferris wheel. Well, this time, Hiroshi was scared. Not for the reason you think. Hiroshi was thinking that if he were to go with Yuki alone in the ferris wheel, his dark side might come out and he might end up killing her on spot. You might think that he is now falling in love with Yuki and doesn't want to kill her, right? But thats not the case at all...

Hiroshi is scared that if he were to kill Yuki there, there would be no place to flee and he would get captured immediately. Its not about love that he doesn't want to kill, its for self protection. What a troublesome guy.

Well, Hiroshi gave her an excuse that he was scared of heights. Although she was pretty excited as she wanted to ride the ferris wheel the most, it is the main attraction for the amusement park after all, she decided to respect Hiroshi's words and didn't ride the ferris wheel.

Instead of riding the ferris wheel, they decided to go around the stalls set there. Those are pretty popular too. They also played different games like shooting games and stuffs. They were playing the shooting game where the customer shoots the items and make them fall, when something happened. Yuki was getting hit on, by a what seems to be a thug, in front of Hiroshi.

Well, Hiroshi isn't going to let it slide. Because, how would you feel if your food was taken away by someone else? You clearly wouldn't like it, would you? Yuki is Hiroshi's prey, he ain't letting his prey go away.

"You have beautiful hair, miss."

That startled Yuki. She just thanked him and hoped that he would go away. But he sure was persistent. Things escalated when that thug grabbed Yuki by her hands. But then, Hiroshi grabbed the thug's hands. He has the eye of a predator who wont let go of his prey. Well, he grabbed the thug's hand so hard that it might have broken the thug's hands, but who cares? Everyone was cheering for Hiroshi after that happened. Yuki was also shocked at this. Soon enough the police came and arrested that man. And the fuss was over.

It was getting pretty late too. It was very, very tiring for Hiroshi to do this. Although he is jacked, there is a limit to how much he can do. He is mentally drained, but he decided to target one last couple that he was going to kill. What a maniac he is.

Finally, after so, so long of waiting, they decided to call it a day. Hiroshi, being the gentleman that he is, decided to walk Yuki to her home. Only halfway though, because he is gonna kill her. It was 11.30 at night. Perfect. There is no cars around, nor any people. This seemed like to go pretty well for Hiroshi. While walking, they went deeper and deeper in a more isolated area. Yuki must live in a remote area, Hiroshi thinks. Its getting more and more perfect for Hiroshi, he is feeling like he hit the jackpot.

Well, for any other man, they would also think they hit the jackpot. Because being at night with such a beautiful girl in a quite place is kind of a heart pounding experience.

"Oh, sorry. I think my laces just opened up. Let me fix it real quick, okay?", She said.

Man, jackpot was hitting on Hiroshi very much. She got her guard down. This is the golden chance he was waiting for.

Guilt? Sorrow? You think he cares? Any sane guy would definitely hesitate, but you think he is sane?

I feel like I am contradicting myself. But believe me, he is sane. Probably... Maybe...

Without having a single moment of hesitation, he pulled up his mask and his knife, put on his mask and swung his knife at such high speed, one couldn't even see his hands moving. He was such millimetres, no, micrometers away from making the girl headless, but then...

But then...

He saw the girl. She had a mask on her face... with a knife on her hand... which was also a few micrometers away from making him headless. Both were similarly shocked. What is happening here? They backed up from each other. Both were questioning each others identity.

"Who is she?"

"Who is he?"

Their head was thinking of this thing only.

Yep. Thats right. There was not one, but two "Quixotic Predators" in this world, and they met with each other today...

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