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「Good
work...」
Earthworm
came back with gal-like make-up on, and fell into bed.
「I'm
tired... I'm so sleepy...」
「You
look like you've been through a lot」
I
said, and Earthworm turned her head toward me, slumped over.
「...It's
a big mess. Customers are crying, asking for Taka-chi's contact information. It
was a riot. The new cast member also started crying, and said she was quitting
too...」
「Why
don't you just beat her up and make her calm down?」
「Shut
up, you barbarian」
Centipede
restrains Tapeworm from interrupting the conversation.
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「I
mean... is the bar still open? Isn't there a need for it after we let
Takata-sama go?」
I ask,
and Earthworm lets out a long sigh.
「It
will continue. The Head Maid says it's useful for gathering information and as
a cover... and it seems to be selling well」
「My
condolences」
I say
with a wry smile, and Earthworm snaps at me.
「Don't
say that. I have to be at the store at least three times a week, but... I'm
sure all of you will be told to work at the bar soon, too」
「Seriously...」
Tapeworm
scowled, and Centipede cowered in exasperation.
「I
don't know about me or Cockroach, but Tapeworm don't get orders. It could turn the bar into a
wasteland in one hit」
「Huh?」
Immediately,
Centipede and Tapeworm grabbed each other's chest without saying a word. While
they were at it, Earthworm asked me.
「Aren't
you lonely, Cockroach? Taka-chi's gone」
「Are
you stupid? Now I have to take care of the female dog, so I don't have time for
that」
「Ah...
Ifs I remember correctly, you were told not to treat her like a human being」
「Yes
yes, like livestock. Lili-sama had modified her body so that she could have a
huge breast, so every morning when I woke up, I went to the barn to milk her
and cleaned the barn. It's a lot of hard work」
「I
thought she said she was going to be kept as a bodyguard」
「Yes,
Confinement King-sama's personal drink tank and bodyguard. So far the milk is
used for Claudia-sama's meals...」
And
Centipede interrupted excitedly.
「But
that means the milk we serve will be drunk by the Confinement King-sama, right?」
At
that moment, everyone stopped moving.
Amidst
the delicate atmosphere, we glanced at each of their faces.
「...It's
kind of erotic, isn't it? It's messed up」
「Yeah,
it's kind of... messed up」
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The
morning sun is filtering through the frosted glass, creating shadows in the
room.
But when
I opened my eyelids, I thought with a hazy mind.
（Why
did this happen?）
No...
it's not that I don't remember the process.
Tattakata
had dragged me into the room.
I was
scared to death to talk to her, but unlike what I thought, Tattakata was very
kind to me.
She
told me to call her “Onee-chan” and glued herself to me, and I wondered why she
was so close to me.
But I must
have fallen asleep while we were talking.
When I
woke up, I found Tattakata in her underwear next to me with her thighs between
my legs, breathing heavily in her sleep.
I
hurriedly checked, but I was still wearing my underwear, and there was no sign
of anything indecent having been done to me.
It was
just that Tattakata was sleeping in her underwear.
It
seems once settled, the warmth of human skin is comforting.
And
since Senpai had left after the trip, I had been so lonely that I could not stand
it.
I was
so lonely at dinner that I even put an A3 size printout of Senpai's photo
across the table and prepared a meal in front of it. But it was a complete
shadow for anyone to see, so I pulled myself away.
「...Ei~」
As
there was no one to mock the joke I had made on the spur of the moment, I was
reminded of a phrase I had learned in Japanese class from Hiroya Ozaki that
said.
**b
「Even
if you cough, you're still alone」
As
soon as I said that, my loneliness broke through the critical point, and I ate
my dinner while crying.
Therefore,
I was really happy to have someone right beside me.
While
I was thinking about this, Tattakata woke up, rubbing her eyes.
「Nnn...
Ah, you're awake, Fukuda-chi」
（Fukuda-chi?）
Isn't
it a little too close to call me that? I thought so, but if I offended her by
complaining, I wouldn't be able to see her. So, I just replied, "Good
morning".
Apparently,
she had low blood pressure.
Her
eyes were sleepy, and she was scratching her head in a fluffy, half-asleep
manner.
「*Yawn*...
Do you have time today, Fukuda-chi?」
「I-I
don't have any plans...」
「I
want to go shopping for clothes... will you accompany me?」
「Yes?」
「Hmm...
It's unavoidable for me to wear uniforms, but it's too strict for me to wear
lame clothes everyday. Yesterday, I checked my closet and found it atrocious. I
mean, seriously, I only have white cotton pants... Though, I knew that...」
No,
I'm happy to be shopping with someone, but there was something else that
bothered me more.
「Takata-senpai,
were you with any gals at the prep school camp?」
The
moment she stopped moving, she makes an awkward face, and then...
「...Yeah」
She
nodded.
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「How
could someone work so hard, so early in the morning...」
「We're
the Police! Let us through!」
Pushing
aside the crowd of onlookers, Inomoto-senpai and I stepped through the yellow
line to the scene.
The
scene is a house in a residential area. It is in the garden of a fine,
relatively new building.
While
peering through the gate post at the hurried forensic work, Inomoto-senpai and
I stand outside the gate and listen to the report of the policeman who was
ahead of us.
It is
often portrayed incorrectly in criminal dramas, but detectives do not enter the
crime scene until after forensics, or at least not before they have finished
examining the footprints.
In
the first place, the chain of command is different, and if the detective orders
the forensic investigator, "Hey, get his fingerprints" as in the
drama, he may be scolded totally.
「Regarding
victim's identity... Officer Motoi, who works at the Iguchi-cho 3-chome police station, has been unreachable since he went out on
patrol last night」
This
is the house I'm in charge of now, where the dead cat was thrown in. And now,
it's a dead human body had been thrown into the garden, not a cat.
Moreover,
it was the corpse of a policeman in charge of this area.
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「I
know it's short-sighted, but... maybe when the victim saw the culprit trying to
throw the cat's body, he was killed spontaneous」
A bad
prank is no longer just a prank.
「The
cause of death, according to the current forensics, is suffocation due to a fracture
of the cervical vertebrae. It looks as if his neck was broken by some kind of
tremendous force」
In the
next moment, Inomoto-senpai raised his eyebrows.
「What
the hell... Is this the work of a pro-wrestler or something?」
Even a
pro-wrestler can't do that. Regardless of the neck, throwing a dead body over a
fence of at least two meters is hardly the work of a human being.
「Who
found the body?」
「Yes,
the owner of this house, Zenkichi Kobayashi, thirty-five years old, a high
school teacher. He found the body this morning when he went out to the garden
to water his plants. He is currently being questioned indoors」
「What
about Kobayashi-san's wife?」
「She
have been quite a shock. She wasn't feeling well, so we sent her to her
parents' house nearby」
The
wife of the house had been mentally exhausted by having dead cats thrown at her
house every day. So, she used to talk to me in a very hysterical and vengeful
manner.
Under
such circumstances, it would not be surprising if she lost her mental balance.
As I
was thinking about this, the policeman said to Senpai, as if he remembered.
「Also,
late last night, a young woman with a hood pulled tightly on her head was seen
running away」
