This Japanese Monogatari Isn't Lame
Chapter 79. Sakurazaka Yuuki

Chapter 79: Chapter 79. Sakurazaka Yuuki

Sakura Yuuki had no time to cry out before she was slammed down onto the steering wheel by someone from behind.

Who is this person? What do they want to do?

Unlike most women who would panic, her calm as a forensic doctor allowed her to quickly analyze the situation—

Bang!

But the other party clearly did not intend to leave Sakura Yuuki any time. Her hair was grabbed, and her head was smashed onto the steering wheel; blood began seeping from her forehead.

"Heh, now I guess there’ll probably be a scar on my forehead from this," Sakura Yuuki chuckled dryly, with a voice that showed no trace of fear.

Indeed—for what would be a terrifing scene to the average woman, it seemed as child’s play to Sakura Yuuki.

"Drive, to Xucha High School," a calm male voice commanded.

"Xucha High School?" Sakura Yuuki, with her hands tied, strained to raise her head, "What place is that? I’ve never heard of it."

She tried to see what the person looked like from the rearview mirror, but to no avail; most of his face was covered with a face mask, and he was wearing a hooded windbreaker.

However, there seemed to be a bulging area around his neck, stuffed with something unknown.

"..." The person behind her did not speak.

After a while, Sakura Yuuki felt the world spinning before her eyes, and then her vision went black, and she passed out.

Before her eyes closed, she saw the youth with a cold expression take off his mask and move to the driver’s side.

Beichuan—

Sakura Yuuki’s mouth opened slightly, and then she finally lapsed into a deep sleep.

...

Sakura Yuuki felt as if she had been dreaming for a long time.

As if her previous life had been a fabrication.

The moment she directed Ishikawa Kaoru to kill the first person... The moment she killed the first person with her own hands... The moment she set fire and burned all the people in second year class B to death...

She knew from the beginning what she was doing,

And she was aware it was against the moral ethical code in her mind.

But in the end, she was left with nothing but the surging violent emotions and an insatiable desire that she could not fill.

Everyone could only see Sakura Yuki, the top performer of the academic year, completely overlooking Sakura Yuuki.

Even though both she and Sakura Yuki were "Yuki"...

Same with her family... Her father was always drunk, abusing her mother and herself.

So that’s it... The world isn’t black or white, just purely gray...

The grayness of her high school days, the grayness of her childhood...

Resentment turned into hatred, hatred turned into a desire to kill—

Sakura Yuuki opened her eyes and felt a throbbing pain in the back of her skull.

It seemed that Beichuan Si had hit her hard earlier, causing her to still feel somewhat dizzy and disoriented.

Sakura Yuuki tried to move, but she quickly realized she was tied to a student chair.

"But why...?" Sakura Yuuki wondered in disbelief.

The student chair beneath her was merely a movable one, so why did it feel as if it was glued to the floor, unyielding no matter how hard she struggled?

’And where is this place?’

Sakura Yuuki couldn’t help but lift her head.

The white-gray walls were cracked and dry, and the ceiling above was completely blackened by fire.

Flaking wall paint, mold spots fell all around, like twisted smiling faces.

The cold moonlight just happened to spill onto Sakura Yuuki, casting her dark shadow long and into several pieces—

The smell of burning scorched Sakurazaka Yuuki’s nostrils, making it difficult for her to breathe.

She finally understood her situation.

The air of composure that she once carried with ease had vanished by half, and memories she wished never to speak of flooded her mind.

Her legs shook violently, as if she suffered from epilepsy.

With a hoarse, trembling voice, she struggled to say,

"Is this, is this Xucha second-year Class B?!"

The scars within her heart were torn open.

"I don’t like going to school, it’s just a giant confined space."

"Why did my father give birth to me if he doesn’t like me?"

"Sakurazaka Yuuki, spelled さくらゆき, romanized as sakura yuki."

"I have my own name."

Itchy... so itchy... unbearable itch—

Sakurazaka Yuuki felt a tingling, burning sensation from the birthmark on her arm.

It was the same as it had been ten years ago.

"But Xucha High School is nothing like it was ten years ago," said Beichuan Si’s icy voice from behind Sakurazaka Yuuki.

Sakurazaka Yuuki wanted to turn around and look at Beichuan Si, but lacking the owl’s ability to swivel her head, she gave up the idea.

"Don’t you have anything you want to ask?" Beichuan Si’s voice was flat as he looked at Sakurazaka Yuuki in front of him.

"Heh... what’s the point of asking those questions? Asking how you guessed it was me? How you knew? I’ve been mentally prepared from the start. Asking such questions is completely meaningless... Besides, Beichuan, you are not one to waste words either, right?" Sakurazaka Yuuki couldn’t help but struggle.

The burning and itching on her arm didn’t stop; she continued,

"But there’s one thing I just can’t figure out. Why are you always at the scene every time an incident occurs?"

Sakurazaka Yuuki couldn’t understand, nor did she comprehend how she seemed to bump into Beichuan Si constantly, unable to shake him off.

"..." After a moment of silence, Beichuan Si said concisely, "I can see Spiritual Bodies."

"Is that so? I see. So this is why you’ve always been able to appear at the scene of crimes," said Sakurazaka Yuuki, momentarily startled, then quickly accepting.

Although the explanation wasn’t scientific and most people wouldn’t accept it so easily, Sakurazaka Yuuki was never normal, forever lingering on the brink of life and death, as if she had long touched the hidden world...

Sakurazaka Yuuki let out a dry laugh.

This woman seemed to like laughing particularly.

"Did you kill Sato Ryosuke?" asked Beichuan Si.

"Pretty much... I learned from Liangzi that you asked for Sato Ryosuke’s contact information, then I came to Yashan City earlier than you and took action... Mr. Sato... he really was a good man," Sakurazaka Yuuki’s gaze wandered, a smile involuntarily forming on her lips:

"That man... After finding out it was me, he still invited me over for a meal, saying he would cook something delicious for me... Even though he was living so frugally, he still had the same passionate demeanor as before."

"But you killed him anyway." Beichuan Si’s words were as blunt as an unfiltered knife.

"Pounced from behind, surgical knife thrust into the throat, Mr. Sato struggled on the floor for a long time before dying." Sakurazaka Yuuki wanted to gesture with her hands, but since they were bound, she could only shrug her shoulders.

"Did you send Ishikawa Kaoru to the Shinkai family? Was it you who sent me the arm?" Beichuan Si asked emotionlessly.

Sakurazaka Yuuki cheerfully replied, "Both were done by Ishikawa following my orders, but that guy was too dumb, thinking he could stake out and ambush you alone, and ended up getting caught by you."

Sakurazaka Yuuki adjusted her mindset quickly, her rationale and articulation seemingly normal enough to fool others into thinking she was sane.

She paused, then added, "I’ve wanted to deal with you for a while now, but Mr. Beichuan, you’re really tricky, with no gaps at all... and I wasn’t sure I could beat you, so it dragged on until today. Oh—how I wish I had burnt down that inn earlier."

Sakurazaka Yuuki laughed viciously, speaking with a camaraderie as if in conversation with an old friend, yet her words were incomprehensible in their madness to ordinary people.

In her eyes, people were no longer human, but just meat in a slaughterhouse to be freely killed.

Whether it was a beloved teacher from the past or an innocent high school student walking down the street, she could take action without a change in expression.

Perhaps Sakurazaka Yuuki had gone insane long ago, or maybe Beichuan Si was simply the first to witness her twisted madness...

Perhaps there shouldn’t be so many maybes in this world.

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