I was acting at first.

It was just an act to avoid being interrogated by the police.

As it turns out, though, fake insanity can become real.

You see, I couldn't bear it any longer.

I continued to be haunted by the presence Rena Ryuugu had talked about. It was so close that it could almost touch my back.

It wasn't Satoshi-kun, and it wasn't a hallucination.

It had become Shion's ghost.

Shion didn't go to Heaven after all.

She was always by my side instead.

Shion didn't like the fact that I was still alive when she wasn't.

So, she had decided to haunt me until she witnessed my death.

Every night, she whispered to me, telling me to die.

...I get it...

...I get it!

...Hah, hah, hah...

I shouted at the Shion in my back.

Through my mouth, she shouted back at me.

It must look odd to other people. They'd think I was arguing with myself.

It's not fair. Why are you still living, Sis?

Die, die, die already!

You said you'd die right after you killed me.

I'm waiting. I'm waiting...

It's so dark and cold in this well.

It's cold...

It hurts...

It hurts...

...It hurts...

Ah, I get it, I get it!!!

Shut up!!

What exactly do you think, Sis? You won't die in the way you want to.

You're just running away. You're trying to survive, even after you did all those horrible things.

You'll never be forgiven. You're cursed.

You're cursed! You're destined to die!!!

"Shut up, Shion!!

You're just a ghost... so shut up.

Shut uuuuuuuup!!!"

"Sis.... Siiissss!!"

"You lousy shit!

Fuck off!!!"

"It's not fair, it's not fair! You and I should always be together, even after death...!!!

So, Mion, I've come to take you with me... Miooonn!!!!"

Bang, bang, bang, bang!!!!

Shion banged on the door.

Bam, bam, bam, bam!!!

That noise is too loud!!

It's cracking my ears and my head open!!

Shion's trying to break in! Ahh, shit! All right, Shion, I get it!

The perfect way for me to die is to be cursed to death by you, isn't it?!

But I won't be going so easily...

Hah, haaah...!!

I won't simply disappear. It wouldn't be fair if your beloved was left alive, after all!!

Ahahaha, hahahaa, heeheeheekyee!!!

I went out onto the balcony to avoid Shion, who was on the other side of the door.

If I jump over the railing to the neighboring apartment, I could reach the fire escape.

Heeheehyaakyakyaa!!

Eat shit, Shion!!!

I leaned over the railing and jumped to the balcony next door.

Then I rushed down the stairs, noiseless as a cat.

Shion was too stupid to realize that I escaped! Heekeekyaheeheegeehee!!

It wouldn't take too long to get to Keiichi's house on a motorcycle.

Shion must believe that I'm still in that room. She's so stupid!

Gheeheeheeheeheehee!!

Soon enough, I could see the Maebara mansion.

I'd never seen it before, but I'd heard a great deal about it from Shion. Kee hee hee hee!!!

She told me that Keiichi's room is on the second floor!!!

I should wake him up. Throw a stone! Gwa ha ha ha ha!!!

I threw a couple of stones at the window, and shortly thereafter the light turned on and the window opened.

I saw Keiichi there.

The moment I saw him...

my madness cooled off for a while.

Even from here, I could tell that Keiichi was running down the stairs.

He showed up quickly...

with a doll in his hand.

...I felt depressed to see it.

It was the doll he failed to give to Shion.

...It isn't fair after all, Shion.

I'm so jealous, Kei-chan...

I want to receive a doll from Satoshi-kun, too...!!!

"...Hah...

Hah...

...Mion!"

"Ahahahaha, it's been a while~

...How are you?

Been doing all right?"

Despite the burning insanity within me, I spoke to him calmly.

...Ah, it's true.

My body is controlled by the demon now...

Otherwise, I wouldn't be here this late...

Kee heehee...!!

"...Are you...

all right... hanging around this place...?!"

"......I really shouldn't be.

...Ehehehe."

"Anyway... what's wrong?

What do you need at this hour?"

"...I wanted to talk to you one last time."

I feel horribly sleepy.

Maybe it's more like fainting due to loss of blood.

Ghee heehee, that sensation is proof that the insanity is swallowing me...

"......Well, I...

ehehehe...

I can't...

stay for any longer..."

"A-Are you all right...?

Are you not feeling well...?"

"...I tried... s-s... so hard until now...

Ahahaha...

but I can tell.

...I'm done... This is my limit...

They're...

......

about to come up behind me to take me away...

Ahahaha......"

I won't get to decide how I die.

Shion won't allow me to.

No wonder. I dropped her down the well.

It wasn't only her. None of the people I killed chose to die how they did.

Considering that... debating how I'll die must seem a luxurious concern to the dead!

"Ah... hahaha...

haha... ha...

hah......

hah......

hah...!

Feegheeghagya...

hah...

ghaa..."

"Are you okay...?!

Don't force yourself...

Oh... that's right.

...I had something—"

...I'll kill him, kill him, kill him...

I'll avenge Satoshi-kun's death, I'll avenge his death!

...This guy is Shion's beloved. I hate her! I'll kill him and teach her a lesson!

Eat this, Shi......

............ghh!

............!!

While gravity's pull spun around me,

I realized that I had stabbed him with a knife.

"Hee......

hee hee hee...

hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee

...!

I made it...

I made it in time...!

...Hu hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee!!!"

Gheh gheh gheh gheh gheh!!

I made it, I made it, I made it before Shion killed me! I got back at her! Gheh gheh gheh gheh!!

Take that, Shion, gheh gheh gheh gheh gheh gheh!!

Keiichi rolled on the ground, clutching his stomach.

"Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee!!

I've done it! I've done it all!

That's everyone... I wanted to kill...!!!

Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee!!"

Yeah! I did it!! Hyahyagyagya, I did it!!!

Gheh gheh, I avenged your death, Satoshi-kun, gheh gheh!!!

Don't you love me for it?! Will you stroke my head?!

Gheh gheh gheh gyeeehhh!!!

Yes.

This was all a bad dream.

After all, I was just in my room like always, suffering from nightmares of Shion.

But...

......

where was I now?

I had been standing on my apartment's fire escape, alone.

...I could still recall that dream.

Yes, I had stepped out onto the veranda.

...My front door was still locked, so... I had to climb through the veranda again.

Hah...

...hmm...

...

...Whoa!

My foot had slipped, and then I felt a floating sensation.

After that, a sharp, indescribable pain ran through my head.

That incredible pain finally cleared the fog away from my nightmare...

I just slipped from the fire escape as I tried to return to my balcony...

...and fell onto the roof jutting out from the elevator hall two or three floors down.

My room is on the eighth floor.

I wasn't expecting to be caught up here.

When I fell, my head landed right on the concrete corner, and I could feel both enormous pain and the warm blood dripping out.

...............I felt strangely calm.

I couldn't sense the demon. Shion's ghost, or my grudge.

...I felt just like a baby...

The nothingness brought me peace.

All my memories from when I was born and named Mion, up until today, came to my mind.

I recalled memories of the time I'd spent with Satoshi-kun. Tears rolled down my cheeks.

Where did I go wrong...?

When in my life did I make the wrong choice?

Ah, I do know just where and when that was... because Satoshi-kun reminded me...

"I'll leave

......

Satoko to you."

Sure.

I believe you'll return.

......I'll be waiting for you.

I'll take care of Satoko.

I'll wait for you with her. We'll be good girls.

You left your precious sister to me, and nobody else.

I guess... I didn't get the significance of what you said...

But I'll be fine this time.

I love you...

Satoshi-kun.

Satoko.........

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry... everybody.

Shion... I'm really sorry.

......Could I repay everything with my death?

No way, right? That's not how it should be done.

I wanted Satoshi-kun to stroke my head one more time.

I wanted to hear him mumble one more time.

I knew it was too much to ask.

...And so, I had no other regrets.

That brought an end to my apologies.

I rolled over, sending myself falling to the ground...

...Head first.

I hoped my head would crack open.

To take me to the Hell I deserved.

I was just a demon.

I belonged in Hell.

Why was I born?

Why did this world give birth to me?

I shouldn't have been born.

I wouldn't have had to suffer if I hadn't been.

What was the meaning of my meaningless life?

If I wasn't born, nobody would have had to suffer.

Thank you for treating me kindly

even though I was like this.

Thank you for teaching me love

even though I was like this.

Even though I was like this......

even though

...

I'm really sorry, everybody.

I really am.

I'm sorry.

If Satoshi-kun could give me another chance...

...I wouldn't make the same mistake again.

...Never again.

Ah...

here comes the ground.

Bye.

I love you.

...Mmph.

Eh?