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<br>Mikiya fell to the ground with a thud. He laid motionless, blood poured
profusely from his head and stained the concrete floor.
<br>I clutched the knife, paralyzed by shock.
<br>I was afraid of Mikiya's corpse, almost to the point of being repelled by it.
<br>Because he was already dead.
<br>"Sorry... I never intended to do this."
<br>Only the sound of the rain responded to my apology.
<br>The memories left behind from when Shirazumi Lio was a student fades further
<br>into oblivion.
<br><br>Like that time...
<br>When Shirazumi Lio decided to quit school, everyone felt that I was doing
something stupid.
<br>They mocked me; after all, what plans could a high-school dropout have? But
<br>Mikiya was different, he was the only one who sincerely cheered
me on.
<br>I will never forget the joy I held, the joy that still lingers in the heart of
Shirazumi Lio.
<br>But I have murdered the very person who gave that joy to me.
<br>I have killed him on sheer impulse.
<br>I knew about the fragility of human lives very well. Sadly, Shirazumi Lio never
had the chance to avoid it, even though I knew
from the time I first took the life of another human being.
<br>"Kokuto, why did you resist me? Weren't you and I always on the same side?
Weren't you the one who understood me?
<br>----You were the only one who couldn't go against me, yet...!"
<br>Even if the world disapproves of me.
<br>As long as I have his approval, it will not matter.
<br>Because you were here, it did not matter...!
<br>Like Kokuto said, Lio didn't love Ryougi Shiki.
<br>I am after Ryougi Shiki as a murderer; if she turns into the same kind of
existence, it will all be pointless.
<br>An existence is only unique because it is one of a kind. That is why I  decided
long ago that I will send her to her death
as soon as she returns to her origin as a murderer.
<br>But only after I had lost him did I realize that <br>---- the partner that I need,
the person who is important to me, is him.

<br><br>Someone like Shirazumi Lio probably wouldn't have survived if not for Kokuto
Mikiya.
<br>I ---- can only be Shirazumi Lio in his presence.
<br>But now he no longer exists.
<br>I felt like I've lost half of myself, disappearing along with the person who
attached it to this world.
<br>I'm sorry, Kokuto. It seems like the Lio that you trusted will be disappearing
here.

<br><br>"----Half left."
<br>Which is why I will live on.
<br>Shirazumi Lio still had Ryougi Shiki. If she returns to being a murderer, I will
be able to exist at peace.
<br>That is right.
<br>I didn't want a Kokuto Mikiya like that! I had this all planned from the start,
didn't I?
<br>To preserve the impulse inside of me, I have to confirm the existence of the
murderer in her to feel at peace.
<br>I left the room and returned to the warehouse, headed towards the marijuana
field.

<br>Shiki ---- the girl I was madly in love with.
<br>She was more special than anyone else, a murderer who lusted for blood.
<br>She was going to become mine.
<br>I couldn't hold back my laughter, the image of her covered in saliva and sweat
was exihilarating.
<br>I want to  ---- do it now.
<br>If I tell her that I killed Kokuto, she will return to who she was.
<br>The true murderer in her will be charging at me.
<br>It would be an alluring sight, with the lingering effect of the drugs inside her
added. If I could devour the defenseless murderer, beginning from the fingers...
<br>Who else would be able to stage such an exquisite scenario?
<br>No-one, no-one but I could.
<br>My tongue wagged inside my mouth, it too wanted to soak up her sweat to its
content, to savour the taste of her flesh and muscle.
<br>But... sweat?
<br>I stopped in the middle of the marijuana field.
<br>What about it? It is normal to sweat after an injection of drugs.
<br>But the amount she was sweating was impossible from just a dose of muscle
relaxant.
<br>...It was as if the body was trying to purge itself of toxin by sweating.
<br>"----No way!"
<br>I started running, dashing towards where I left her, parting the vegetation with
my hands and sprinting with all my effort.
<br>It took only ten seconds to get there, and I saw what I expected to see.

<br><br>"----"
<br>I was moved to silence.
<br>The only area in the warehouse untouched by vegetation.
<br>She who shouldn't even have the strength to rise stood daintily, with the eyes of
the devil.