Gun of the south star

So yeah in hindsight, hanging yourself in quote-on-quote public is a bad idea but I had my reasons.

1:it was behind a building, far away from the sights and 2:I did it quickly, around 1 min, so the only way someone would find me is if they were looking for me.

Also, it's kinda a spur of the moment you don’t just decide to kill yourself while on your couch, you need to get motivated to do it, Well most of the time.

I’m mentioning this because, if you don’t remember, I'm being held at gunpoint by Anton after trying to kill myself.

Also one reminder, he just shot himself and is now trying to shoot me which you may think is a good thing but keep in mind one thing.

If he shoots me, he gets arrested, and I want to die with no regrets. Or at least the least amount of regret I could have after what I did.

That is also why I help the people there with therapy by the way.

“Look, I can explain,” I say.

“Can you?” Anton questions

I look at my clothes in a tie of a noose but it’s down so it’s not obvious to Anton what it is.

“ANSWER,” Anton says.

“It’s-” I start.

“That’s a lie,” he says.

I’m looking at him, dumbfounding. For reference, I was going to say that it was too hot so I had to take off my clothes.

“Ho-” I try to ask.

“What do you think?” Anton says “This is my job, and I don’t slack on it”.

“Speaking of doing my job” Anton continues “What were you talking about with everyone else?”.

“Huh,” I mumble.

“I know what you’ve been doing” Anton retorts “You talked with Reina, Jiro, Daitan, and even Atuso privately, some shouting and accusing you, but every time you were able to subdue them and make them your quote-on-quote friends”.

“So now tell me” Anton seethes “What were you talking about”.

I’m about to try to just run away but Anton grip my shoulder even harder.

“I was just talking to them and calming them down” I technically lie.

“Wrong,” Anton says.

I just blink and say “How?”.

“I don’t know about Reina or Jiro, but I know that you were talking about me with Daitan,” Anton says.

“Well, that is technically true,” I say.

“I don’t want some half-assed technically true” Anton snaps “Give me the whole truth”.

“Daitan likes you” I blurt out.

Yeah yeah, I know, but in my defense, either way, Daitan would have eventually had to ask Anton if he likes her so I'm just speeding up the process.

“What?” Anton asks.

I’m about to say something along the lines of “See you didn't want to know” but Anton shoves the gun closer to my head.

I’m initially confused by this when Anton says “I know that isn't true, don’t just distract me with whatever that was”

“How much I would pay to see his reaction to realizing I was telling the truth,” I think.

“Alright then fine,” Anton says “I’ll let you go, but that doesn't mean I’ll let you go anywhere”.

“So what?” I ask “You just gonna tail me until you get enough evidence to arrest me?”.

“No,” He says “I have enough evidence to arrest you right now, I want enough evidence to shoot you right in your head”.

Huh

“So where are you going to go next to do... whatever you do?” Anton asks

“I don't know!” I say “You just threatened to kill me”.

“Well I mean when a police officer says raise your hands or I'll shoot that's also a death threat” Anton comments before shaking his head and commanding “Don’t sway the topic”.

He then looks at me to answer the question.

“I guess I’m going to that crepe place that Jiro mentioned,” I say, pointing to the general direction “I mean that is the reason why we are here in the first place”.

“Also” I continue “Are you really going to kill me in broad daylight?”.

“If I have to,” Anton asserts.

I put my clothes back on and we go.

We walk to the crepe place that Jiro was talking about, and right there, Jiro, waiting impatiently, probably the maddest he’s ever been since Reina said that newer animes are bad.

Before I can say anything, Anton says “Tell me what you were talking about”.

“Well,” Jiro says “I was giving the money to the vendor but I accidentally gave a 50 yen coin instead of a 500 yen coin so-”

“No not that,” Anton says so agitatedly, I thought he was just gonna shoot Jiro at that instant.

“What was the thing that you were talking to Masao about?” Anton continues.

“Told you that you should have come clean” I mutter

“Stuff,” Jiro answers.

“Really?” Anton groans

Anton then grabs Jiro’s shoulders and says “Blink twice if you’re being held hostage by Masao”.

“You do know I’m still here?” I say

“Look, I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Jiro says “I’m just gonna get my crepe now”.

“Didn't you say you paid for the crepe already?” I ask.

“I mean they have to get it ready,” Jiro says.

“Stop distracting him!” Anton exclaims.

“From what?” Jiro says while getting his crepe.

“What did you talk about with Masao?!” Anton asks again.

“Stuff,” Jiro says with his mouth full from the crepe.

“Speaking of,” Jiro says to the increasingly angry Anton “Where were you two?”.

“Oh yeah, we saw a celebrity here and got a few photos of them.” I lie while getting in line for a crepe.

“Can you show me?” Jiro asks in an excited tone.

“No, they wanted us to delete the photos” I lie again.

“Hey Masao,” Anton says “Talk with me privately”.

“I knew it, you two are making out” Jiro jokes. I think.

“What, why?” I ask “I just got in line”.

“Is that another lie?” Anton asks.

“No?” I say “As you can see I am in the line”.

If you haven’t tried a crepe before, try it, especially the Japanese version, it's dough and whipped cream, just try it.

“You know what I mean,” Anton says.

‘Well, I don’t!” Jiro exclaims ‘Is this some type of inside joke or something?”

“You’re starting to sound like my older sibling,” Jiro adds.

When Jiro says older sibling, Anton visibly slumps and falls to the floor.

Jiro thinks this is some bit so he goes up to Anton and says “Are you ok?” and “I can’t help” while laughing.

I pick Anton up by the shoulders and ask Jiro to get my order for me.

I decide that the best place to put him is behind that same building, he’ll recognize it but it will be away from public view.

The reason I’m not going to a hospital is that it was obviously psychological why we fell down

I start to go and get my crepe from Jiro but at that moment, Anton grabs me by the ankles making me fall over.

“Where do you think you’re going?” He asks in a stern voice.

He looks around a bit and says “And why are we here again”.

“Look,” I say, “You fell over and probably just needed some rest, so I pulled you over here so that you weren't on the street”.

He stands up and says “Well as you can see I’m better, so you can now frick off”.

He pulls his gun out and points it at me “So now we're done with that detour, let's settle this once and for all”.

I’m thinking about how almost every line that Anton has said thus far sounds like some movie line when I catch a glimpse of the barrel of the gun.

The name Edwina Bec.