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He watches his father, his upper half all the remains, hang limp in the monster’s mouth, staring at him with wide eyes. He watches the last bit of hope leave his fathers eyes, before his lifeless corpse is tossed aside.
It… it didn’t even eat him… it just wanted to kill.
As Chuichi sobs… the string loosen.
“Poor little bug…” Uttu mutters.
“Help… me…” he cries.
Uttu shakes her head. “Survive.”
As the creature walks away and the silk fades, Chuichi runs towards his parents. He collapses… he doesn’t even have anything to hold onto, mangled bits of flesh all that remain.
He lets out one last scream, which alerts the creature. It turns back, and begins to rush towards Chuichi once more.
Chuichi is thankful… he wants it to take him. Let him be with his parents…
As the creature launches itself, a figure comes into view. They sheath a sword… and the creature explodes.
An older man, a human, holds his hand out. “You’re from the village, aren’t you…?”
Chuichi looks up, as that man picks him up, and holds him close. “It’s okay, boy…”
“No… don’t save me…” Chuichi cries. “I want to be with them.”
“How did you even survive?” The man asks.
Chuichi wants to answer ‘I didn’t’… but his words are caught in his throat.
The world around him soon fades, and he finds himself in the borders of that school. The man introduced himself as Kankuro Asai, but he did not stay to comfort the poor lad. Instead, he received a phone call.
“Kazuma did what?!” Kankuro exclaims. “This is my sister’s fault, isn’t it? Hang on, I’ll be there in a second.”
He turns to Chuichi. “I’ll send someone to take you home. Don’t worry, kid… you’re a survivor, I know it. We’ll take care of you.”
Chuichi wasn’t only robbed of his parents that night… he was robbed of his right to die. He wanted to… every day, Chuichi begged for the world to take him, somehow. But no… he could not bring an end to it all.
He needed to make those demons pay. They toyed with him, like he was nothing. And even in the face of another human like Kankuro Asai… he was nothing.
The world was cold, and cruel. Chuichi decided that day.
It all needed to burn.
